Tillandsia montana
Tillandsia montana is a little-documented Brazilian endemic of subgenus Anoplophytum from the Atlantic Forest highlands of Santa Catarina, with a few records in Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul. Herbarium records put it mostly at 700–950 m in the Serra Geral foothills, where the climate is humid all year with mild summers and cool winters. Treat it as a humid-climate, cool-tolerant tillandsia rather than a desert species.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels are brief. Many collections come from river valleys (Rio Feijão, Rio das Demoras, Rio Fortuna) and from the escarpment at Serra do Corvo Branco, in Atlantic Forest and mixed Araucaria forest. Whether it grows mainly on trees or on rock is not recorded in the sources we could open. Like most Anoplophytum species it is treated here as an epiphyte of fairly open, humid sites.
GBIF specimen elevations run from about 300 m to 942 m, with most between 700 and 950 m.
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