Guzmania xanthobractea
A large, clump-forming Guzmania endemic to Ecuador, up to about a metre tall. It has a red, curved scape and a loose, branched inflorescence with yellow floral bracts. It grows in premontane and cloud forest on the western Andean slope around Mindo, as an epiphyte or on the ground, and is listed as Near Threatened because of habitat loss. Grow it cool, shaded and very humid.
Where it grows wild
Moist lowland forest and moist montane forest, especially the cloud forests of the Mindo area in Pichincha and premontane wet forest in Imbabura. It grows as an epiphyte or terrestrially, and forms clusters.
The one GBIF observation with an elevation is at about 1,400 m in premontane wet forest; the Mindo cloud forests lie at roughly 1,200-2,000 m.
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