Aechmea leonard-kentiana
A bromeliad described in 1996 from the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil, known from only a handful of records near the coast around Una and Canavieiras. Little is published about it, so care follows other Bahian Atlantic Forest Aechmea: warm all year, bright filtered light, humid air and a medium that never stays soggy.
Where it grows wild
Lowland Atlantic Forest of the southern Bahian coast, where Aechmea grow as epiphytes on trunks and branches or on the ground and rocks in more open patches. The exact microhabitat of this species is not documented in the sources read; this is inferred from the genus and the region.
Records carry almost no elevations; the one climate site sits at about 100 m, near the coast.
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