Vriesea sceptrum
A highland Atlantic Forest bromeliad of the Serra da Mantiqueira in southeastern Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro). It grows mainly as an epiphyte in Araucaria and Podocarpus mixed forest at about 800 to 1,800 m, and also on rock outcrops in campos de altitude. It is one of the cooler-growing Vriesea, suited to bright, cool, airy conditions with cold, drier winters.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it as mostly epiphytic on trees in mixed forest along streams and in Araucaria and Podocarpus forest, sometimes on rocks in high-altitude grassland, and occasionally terrestrial where plants have fallen onto sunny forest floor. Most records come from Campos do Jordão, Itatiaia, Passa Quatro, Delfim Moreira, Aiuruoca and Caldas.
Recorded from about 800 to 1,780 m, with most sites above 1,500 m in the Serra da Mantiqueira.
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