Guzmania radiata
Overview
A detailed profile for this species is sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as assessments become available.
Guzmania radiata faces severe pressure from deforestation and habitat conversion throughout its limited range in Central American cloud forests. The species' specialized epiphytic lifestyle makes it particularly vulnerable to logging operations that remove its host trees, while agricultural expansion into montane areas eliminates entire forest patches. Climate change poses an additional threat by altering the moisture regimes essential for this bromeliad's survival in cloud forest ecosystems.
Habitat
Guzmania radiata is an epiphytic bromeliad that inhabits humid montane cloud forests, typically growing on tree branches and trunks in the forest canopy. The species requires consistent moisture and filtered light conditions found in these specialized high-elevation tropical ecosystems.
Other threatened species in Bromeliaceae
Threatened in Colombia
Frequently asked questions
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