Guzmania strobilantha
One of the earliest Guzmanias known to science, described by Ruiz and Pavón from their late eighteenth-century Peruvian expedition as Bonapartea strobilantha and named for its cone-like inflorescence. It grows in the warm Amazonian foothills of central Peru, mostly between 200 and 700 m, and is a warm-growing tank epiphyte.
Where it grows wild
Humid lowland and foothill rainforest on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andes, in Huánuco, Pasco and Loreto, as a tank epiphyte on trunks and branches in shade. Most records lie around 400 m, with a few reaching nearly 2,000 m.
Recorded 225 to 1,950 m, median 420 m from thirty records.
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