Vriesea nubicola Leme
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- Distribution and habitat: Vriesea nubicola was discovered during the Bromeliaceae survey of Três Picos State Park in Rio de Janeiro state, with the support of the Instituto Estadual do Ambiente (INEA). It is an inhabitant of the high-altitude grasslands (Campos de Altitude), at about 2,000 m elevation, where it grows terrestrially fully esposed to sunlight, forming dense groups of plants in the grass-like vegetation on the mountain top Cabeça de Dragão. Its population at the type locality is reduced in number of individuals, but probably V. nubicola can also be found at the ecologically similar foggy sites of the neighboring montain tops, that are only accessible by technical climbing. —See Leme & Kollmann 2011
