Vriesea pabstii
A green, shade-loving tank bromeliad from the montane Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, mostly in the Serra do Mar and Serra da Bocaina of São Paulo at about 750 to 1,200 m. Its leathery leaves are banded with darker green, and a branched inflorescence about 1 m tall carries green or yellow bracts and white to yellowish flowers that open at night, which points to bat pollination. It wants cool, humid, shaded conditions like a cloud-forest Vriesea.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe an epiphyte of dense montane and upper-montane rain forest (Floresta Ombrófila Densa Montana and Alto-Montana), including riverside and alluvial forest. One note calls it 'ciófila' (shade-loving) and another says 'epiphytic or terrestrial in shade'. It occasionally grows on rock. Collections come from the Serra do Mar State Park (Cunha, Santa Virgínia), Boracéia, Serra da Bocaina, Intervales and São Paulo's southern outskirts.
Labelled elevations run from 750 to 1,200 m (one label reads 10,365 m, clearly a typo for about 1,036 m).
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