Werauhia latissima
A large tank-forming epiphytic bromeliad from the wet premontane and montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Little is published on this species beyond its description, so conditions here are built from the recorded sites and what is known for montane Werauhia: cool nights, near-constant humidity and filtered light.
Where it grows wild
Grows as an epiphyte on trunks and larger branches in very wet, cloudy forest on the Caribbean and Pacific slopes of the Costa Rican cordilleras. Like other montane Werauhia it holds water in a broad leaf tank.
The few dated elevations fall at 1400–1500 m; most records cluster in the Tilarán and Central cordilleras at mid elevation.
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