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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Guzmania bipartita

A Guzmania of the wet eastern Andean foothills and lower montane forest, recorded from Colombia (Antioquia) through Ecuador and Peru to Bolivia, mostly at about 900-1500 m. It was described by L.B. Smith in 1959, and little has been published about its ecology. It needs the conditions of warm, very humid premontane rainforest: shade to filtered light, steady warmth with mild nights, and constant moisture with good air movement.

At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Herbarium labels place it in primary and remnant humid forest on the Amazonian slope of the Andes, including palm-rich forest with Iriartea and Dictyocaryum, ridge forest in the Cordillera del Cóndor, and one record on sandstone rock covered in a spongy mat of moss and humus. Sources do not settle whether it is mainly epiphytic or grows on rock and the ground; like most Guzmania it is treated here as an epiphyte.

GBIF specimens with elevations run from about 400 to 2640 m, median about 1260 m (42 records); most are at 900-1500 m.

ColombiaEcuadorPeruBolivia

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✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
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