Guzmania acutispica
A little-known Guzmania from the eastern (Amazonian) slopes of the Andes in Ecuador and northern Peru, known from only a handful of herbarium collections at about 800–1200 m. It comes from warm, wet premontane rainforest, so grow it like other lowland-to-foothill Guzmanias: warm, humid, in bright shade and with its cup never allowed to go stale.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels place it in premontane rainforest on the Amazonian flank of the Andes: forest beside a trail in the Bombuscaro sector of Podocarpus National Park, the Cordillera del Cóndor, and the Lago Agrio to El Reventador road. The labels do not say whether it grew on trees or on the ground; most Guzmanias of these forests are epiphytes, so that is assumed here.
The six GBIF specimens with elevations were collected at 800–1200 m.
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