Orthophytum buranhense grows on shallow organic material accumulated in crevices and depressions in very steep and dark granitic surfaces in the domain of the Atlantic Forest in southern Bahia and adjacent areas of Minas Gerais. It forms dense, sometimes large groups of plants, mostly full exposed to sunlight, strikingly contrasting the cinereous-white color of their leaves and bracts with the very dark rock surface. —SeeJ. Bromeliad Soc.
