“…In contrast to the Orchidaceae family, however, among bromeliads a strong correlation was not found between the occurrence of CAM and epiphytism [68]. In fact, a more recent work suggested that CAM could be more common in terrestrial, rather than epiphytic, bromeliad species [80]. Although very enlightening, these studies focused on the phylogeny and took into account only whether the plants were epiphytes or not.…”