Vriesea limae
A Brazilian bromeliad known almost entirely from granite and gneiss inselbergs in the brejos de altitude of Pernambuco and Alagoas. Brejos are humid forest islands on hills at about 950–1,100 m, surrounded by the dry caatinga. Published detail on the species is thin, so much of this profile rests on the herbarium labels and the measured climate.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels place it on granite and gneiss inselbergs set in a forest matrix. Examples are Pedra do Cassange at Sítio Bituri, the Serra dos Caboclos and the Serra do Urubu, in the brejo de altitude around Brejo da Madre de Deus and Lagoa dos Gatos in Pernambuco. None of the labels says whether it grows on bare rock, in rock-crevice vegetation or on trees at the forest edge. Rock-dwelling (saxicolous) growth is the most likely reading of repeated inselberg collections, but that is an inference, not a published fact.
Labelled elevations are about 970–1,107 m for most Pernambuco collections. The 0 m entries are missing values, not sea-level records. A smaller cluster in the Alagoas hills probably sits lower, and the measured climate puts that site at about 220 m.
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