Tillandsia emergens
A high-Andean Tillandsia endemic to Ecuador, known from humid montane forest and the edge of páramo in the northern and central Andes. It is listed as threatened by habitat loss on the IUCN Red List. Published detail about the plant itself is scarce, so treat it as a cool-growing, cloud-forest epiphyte: bright light, cold nights, frequent moisture and constant air movement.
Where it grows wild
Wild records describe it on trees in humid montane forest (bosque húmedo montano) along the old Chillogallo–Chiriboga road, the Quito–Baeza road, around Cotacachi–Cuicocha and up towards the Páramo de El Ángel. Collectors note it as epiphytic on spreading branches.
GBIF records with altitude run from 2,000 to about 3,200 m (median about 2,800 m); Wikipedia gives 2,500–4,000 m. Either way it is a cold-montane plant.
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