Tillandsia lutheri
A rare bromeliad endemic to the Andes of southern Ecuador, described in 2000 as Vriesea lutheri and later moved to Tillandsia. It is known from a handful of sites in Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces at about 2,300–2,700 m, in wet montane forest and shrubland, and is listed as Vulnerable. It is a cool, constantly moist, high-humidity plant; almost nothing about it is published beyond its locations.
Where it grows wild
Subtropical or tropical moist montane forest; collection sites include the Podocarpus National Park area, the San Francisco scientific station, the road to Cerro Toledo and shrubby vegetation on the Cordillera de Nanguipa. Whether it grows mainly on trees or on the ground or rocks is not stated in the sources checked; as a former Vriesea it is most likely an epiphyte.
GBIF records lie between about 2,300 and 2,690 m.
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