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Summary
Guzmania scherzeriana is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. This species is native to Central America (known from all countries except El Salvador), Colombia and Ecuador.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Guzmania scherzeriana", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Guzmania
Guzmania is a genus of over 120 species of flowering plants in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae. They are mainly stemless, evergreen, epiphytic perennials native to Brazil, southern Mexico, Central America, and northern and western South America. They are found at altitudes of up to 3,500 m (11,483 ft) in the Andean rainforests.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Guzmania", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Guzmania in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (3,332 mm of 4,427 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 1.2 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
4,427 mm in the median year at the habitat, 3,332 mm of it May to December. Wettest month October at 472 mm, driest month February at 247 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,335 mm to 7,823 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 4,092 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 4,427 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 31 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 17.9 °C, the absolute minimum 16.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 19.9 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 15.7 °C to 23.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 27.0 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 17.9 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 69 to 74% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +12 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Group. Listed under the genus Guzmania in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 25 °C in Jan, Nov and Dec to 27 °C in Mar, Apr and May; mean nightly low from 20 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov and Dec to 21 °C in Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep. The cold quarter, Nov to Jan, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 6 months in a row that tie for it. 4,427 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Oct. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 84 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 16.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.5 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 25 / 21–27 | 26 / 22–28 | 27 / 22–28 | 27 / 23–29 | 27 / 23–28 | 26 / 22–28 | 26 / 22–27 | 26 / 22–28 | 26 / 23–28 | 26 / 22–27 | 25 / 22–27 | 25 / 21–27 |
| Night °C | 20 / 16–23 | 20 / 16–23 | 20 / 16–24 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 16–23 | 21 / 16–23 | 21 / 16–23 | 20 / 16–23 | 20 / 16–23 | 20 / 16–23 |
| Rain mm | 295 / 89–567 | 247 / 63–493 | 270 / 53–546 | 283 / 94–667 | 414 / 193–781 | 425 / 173–700 | 416 / 106–631 | 449 / 91–712 | 441 / 168–692 | 472 / 164–797 | 404 / 166–706 | 311 / 148–645 |
| DLI | 26 / 20–32 | 28 / 23–34 | 31 / 24–38 | 29 / 22–37 | 26 / 19–31 | 24 / 18–30 | 24 / 19–32 | 25 / 19–33 | 25 / 18–32 | 23 / 19–31 | 23 / 18–30 | 24 / 19–28 |
| RH % | 71 / 68–78 | 70 / 66–77 | 69 / 66–76 | 70 / 66–76 | 72 / 68–78 | 74 / 68–78 | 74 / 68–79 | 74 / 68–79 | 73 / 68–79 | 74 / 68–79 | 74 / 68–79 | 73 / 68–79 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Cody Hinchliff, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Dylan Camacho Guzman, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Maurice Raymond, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Millie Basden, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0.
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Also known as Guzmania guatemalensis; Guzmania herthae; Guzmania scherzeriana var. guatemalensis; Guzmania scherzeriana var. scherzeriana; Guzmania superba. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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