Guzmania fuerstenbergiana
An epiphytic Guzmania endemic to western Ecuador, from the foothill forests of Pichincha south to El Oro. Unusually for the genus, it is recorded from seasonally dry as well as moist forest, and it is threatened by habitat loss. Grow it warm and humid like other Guzmania, with bright shade and water in the rosette, but it should tolerate a drier spell better than cloud-forest species.
Where it grows wild
Wikipedia, following the IUCN assessment, gives subtropical or tropical dry forest and moist lowland forest as its habitats. A specimen from El Oro was collected at about 1,000 m in an area with a long dry season, and an observation from western Pichincha comes from wet foothill forest.
The El Oro specimen is at 1,000 m. The Pichincha observation lies at roughly 750 m. Its range is likely western foothills from about 500 to 1,200 m.
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