Guzmania sphaeroidea
A widespread Guzmania of wet forests from Costa Rica and Panama through the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia and east to Venezuela and the Guiana Highlands. Most wild records are from about 900–1,450 m, in premontane and cloud forest and in wet forest on white sand. It suits intermediate, very humid, shaded conditions like most green-leaved Guzmania.
Where it grows wild
Wet tropical forest: herbarium labels from Guyana and Venezuela describe tall mature forest, Dicymbe-dominated moist forest on white sand, dense forest on sandstone and peat with Clusia and Euterpe, and mixed cloud forest on organic soils. Most Guzmania are epiphytes of shaded mid-levels, and that is likely here too, though habitat notes do not state its position.
Recorded from about 350 m up to rare records near 3,900 m; half of the dated records lie between about 900 and 1,450 m, with a median around 1,100 m. A Colombian catalogue gives 100–2,500 m.
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