Guzmania litaensis
Guzmania ×litaensis is a natural hybrid described by Harry Luther in 2002 from the Lita area on the Imbabura–Esmeraldas border of northwest Ecuador, where the Andes drop into the wet Chocó lowlands. It is known from a single wild record and is very rarely cultivated; the conditions here follow the measured climate at that site and what epiphytic Guzmania of the Chocó foothills need.
Where it grows wild
Presumed epiphyte in very wet premontane forest of the western Andean foothills near Lita, where its parent species grow together. No habitat note is attached to the record; this is inferred from the locality and the genus.
No elevation is recorded; the Lita area sits at roughly 500 to 900 m in premontane forest.
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