It is native to southern Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana, and is found in areas with nutrient-poor, high moisture soil.

[8] Brocchinia reducta, like many other bromeliads, forms a water-storing cup with its tightly overlapping, bright yellow and green leaves, creating a cylinder when growing outdoors called a rosette.

[6][9] However, several studies have determined that the reflective wax coating serves mainly to cause insects to slip into the water cup below.

[10] Its trichomes, located on the outer cell wall, can transport molecules as small as 6.6 nm.[11][12]B.

"Traps of carnivorous pitcher plants as a habitat: composition of the fluid, biodiversity and mutualistic activities".