Guzmania nicaraguensis Mez & C. F. Baker

Guzmania nicaraguensis Mez & C. F. Baker; Mez, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 436. 1903.
Guzmania bracteosa "Andrf" Donn. -Smith, Bot. Gaz. 47: 262. 1909. Not G. bracleosa Aiidr6, 1896.
Leaves 10-15 in a dense cyathiform rosette, 3-6 dm. long, usually much exceeding the inflorescence, chartaceous, densely and minutely pale-appressed-lepidote below, becoming glabrous, often marked with fine longitudinal red stripes; sheaths ovate, I dm. long, castaneous toward the base; blades ligulate, acute, apicidate, 20-25 mm. wide; scape erect, short and largely concealed by the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, den.sely imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper broadly elliptic, apiculate, subinflated, bright-red to reddish-brown; inflorescence simple, densely fusiform, few-flowered, fertile throughout, 7-10 cm. long, glabrous; floral bracts like the upper scape-bracts but obtuse or broadly acute, not apiculate, 5 cm. long, den.sely imbricate, membranaceous; flowers short-pedicellate, erect; sepals subelliptic, broadly obtuse, up to 25 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, membranaceous, short-connate; petals connate into a slenderly cylindric tube for most of their length, over 6 cm. long, yellow, the free portion elliptic, obtuse; stamens barely included, the filaments highly connate with the petals, anthers 4 mm. long; ovary slenderly pyramidal.
TvpB locality: Volcano Mombacho. Granada, Nicaragua. Oistribittton: Oualemala, Nicaragua, and Crwta Rica.

Guzmania nicaraguensis is a plant species in the genus Guzmania. This species is native to Central America (all countries except El Salvador) and Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas).