-Distribution and habitat. Brazil, western part of the state of Bahia, municipality of Luis Eduardo Magalhães, in sandy savannah (so-called campo cerrado), altitude 810 m. The plants grow in full sunshine or between trees and bushes, exclusively in more rocky (sandstone) areas, together with cacti like Leocereus bahiensis ssp. barreirensis and Discocactus catingicola and bromeliads of the genera Dyckia and Encholirium.
Conservation. Unfortunately this species only survives on very rocky places, where agriculture had and will have no chance. But there are only few of these spots, becoming more and more isolated, destroyed and burned in the endless ocean of soybean plantations. Investigations to find and protect those little habitats is urgently needed. Already now, from our point of view, the conservation status of Bromelia charlesii is critically endangered to almost extinct. —SeeDie Bromelie
