Vriesea fontellana was collected in the county of Laranja da Terra, Espirito Santo State, close to the boarder with Minas Gerais State. It was growing in large populations at about 1,000 m elevation, on vertical and inaccessible rocky escarpments. However, the lower specimens of the population came very close to the higher branches of the tallest trees of the surrounding Atlantic Forest, making it possible for some large monkey (probably the Tufted Capuchin Monkey, Cebus nigritus or even Howler Monkeys, Alouatta sp.) to remove plants to eat the soft leaf bases. Some of these removed specimens, despite being seriously damaged, presumably by a monkey, were collected on the forest floor, close to the escarpment base, and have survived, flowering in cultivation. —SeeVidalia, Revista da
