Guzmania marantoidea
An Andean Guzmania of montane and cloud forest in Bolivia and Peru, with a few records from southern Ecuador. It resembles G. paniculata but has a more branched inflorescence with longer, more loosely flowered branches. It needs cool, constantly humid conditions and bright shade, like other cloud-forest bromeliads.
Where it grows wild
It grows in Andean montane cloud forest, including stunted cloud forest, in the Yungas of Bolivia and the eastern Andean slopes of Peru and Ecuador. Specimen labels do not say whether it grows on trees or on the ground. It is treated here as an epiphyte, as most cloud-forest Guzmania are.
Reported from 900–2,700 m. Most specimens were collected at about 1,900–2,500 m, for example near Tunquini, Bolivia, at 2,477 m and at Estación CientÃfica San Francisco, Ecuador, at 2,200 m.
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