Guzmania altsonii
A widespread but little-described Guzmania found from the Guiana Shield (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela) to the eastern Andean foothills of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Specimen labels place it in wet forest, on rocks in the understory, and in white-sand scrub. Grow it like other shade-loving tropical guzmanias: warm, humid and in filtered light, with water in the central cup.
Where it grows wild
Labels describe wet slope forest rich in epiphytes, Dicymbe forest on white sand with a bromeliad-rich forest floor, scrub forest on white sand, sandstone escarpments, riverine forest on creek banks, exposed rocks in the understory, and disturbed secondary growth. The records do not say whether it grows mainly on trees, rocks or the ground, and the labels suggest all three.
137 specimens carry an elevation, ranging from near sea level to about 2,360 m with a median of about 825 m. It is mostly a lowland to submontane plant, with higher records from the Ecuadorian Andean slopes.
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