Distr. on steeply sloping places close to the tops of small hills, on soil of yellow Latosol with gravel; between deciduous scattered short trees and shrubs in biome Cerrado, sympatric with some other bromeliad genera like Bromelia, Dyckia (D. sp. E-719) and Tillandsia, and some Velloziaceae and Orchidaceae (Cyrtopodium sp.).
Introduction
Since the middle of the 1980s, when the Cerrado (local name of a Brazilian ecosystem, similar to a savannah) was still exuberant and full of life, the destruction of its biodiversity was there to watch. Now the remaining natural vegetation in the Cerrado has revealed some important novelties, e.g., Dyckia mauriziae Esteves &
Hofacker, introduced herein, and D. mirandana Leme & Miranda (2009), both with their leaves displayed in a secund way. —SeeDie Bromelie
