Guzmania calamifolia
Guzmania calamifolia, the reed-leaved Guzmania, is a small, narrow-leaved bromeliad common in the wet forests of Panama and the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, with over a hundred wild records from sea level to about 1800 m. It is an undemanding warm grower for a humid case or a shaded greenhouse bench, and its slender clumps of grassy leaves take little room.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte on trunks and branches in wet lowland and premontane forest, from the Caribbean slope at Portobelo and the Santa Rita ridge to the hills of El Valle de Antón, Santa Fe and the Ngöbe-Buglé comarca, and on the Pacific side of Colombia around Buenaventura. Observations describe wild epiphytic plants; two varieties are separated by inflorescence colour.
Recorded elevations 11 to 1780 m, median 762 m, from 104 records; most collections fall between 100 and 1100 m.
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