“…Bromeliothrix metopoides (Colpodidae), a ciliate restricted to bromeliads (Foissner, 2010;Weisse, Scheffel, Stadler, & Foissner, 2013), was together with a list of yeast and protist species exclusively found in bromeliads. ubatubensis, C. intermedia, Hagleromyces aurorensis, Papiliotrema leoncinii, P. miconiae, and Cryptococcus albidus (Tremellaceae) directly depend on bromeliad habitats (Araújo, Medeiros, Mendonça-Hagler, & Hagler, 1998;Araújo et al, 2012;Gomes et al, 2015;Gomes, Safar, Santos, Lachance, & Rosa, 2016;Hagler et al, 1993;Pagani et al, 2016;Ruivo, Lachance, Rosa, Bacci, & Pagnocca, 2005;Safar, Gomes, Marques, Lachance, & Rosa, 2013;Sousa, Morais, Lachance, & Rosa, 2014). ubatubensis, C. intermedia, Hagleromyces aurorensis, Papiliotrema leoncinii, P. miconiae, and Cryptococcus albidus (Tremellaceae) directly depend on bromeliad habitats (Araújo, Medeiros, Mendonça-Hagler, & Hagler, 1998;Araújo et al, 2012;Gomes et al, 2015;Gomes, Safar, Santos, Lachance, & Rosa, 2016;Hagler et al, 1993;Pagani et al, 2016;Ruivo, Lachance, Rosa, Bacci, & Pagnocca, 2005;Safar, Gomes, Marques, Lachance, & Rosa, 2013;Sousa, Morais, Lachance, & Rosa, 2014).…”