Type: Venezuela. Yaracuy State. Cerro La Chapa, Nirgua, about 210 kilometers from Caracas, ( 130 miles); growing at 1200 m altitude, in a cloud forest among other bromeliads, such as Guzmania cylindrica, G. nubigena, G. squarrosa, G. mucronata, Catopsis sessiliflora, Mezobromelia capituligera var. lutea, Vriesea platynema, Aechmea lasseri and Tillandsia amicorum.