Guzmania donnellsmithii Mez ex Donn. Sm.

Thecophyllum angustum Mez & Werckid; Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 1121. 1904.
Leaves as many as 15 in a fasciculate rosette and forming a slender pseudobulb, 4 dm. long; sheaths narrowly elliptic, densely lepidote with light-brown, closely appressed scales; blades linear, acuminate, about 20 mm. wide, concolorous, pale-Iepidote, green, canescent and chartaceous when dry; scape erect, shorter than the leaves, slender, slightly f urf uraceous ; scapebracts erect, very densely imbricate, foliaceous; inflorescence exceeded by the leaves, densely bipinnate, cylindric, 13 cm. long, 4 cm. in diameter, brilliant-red due to the bracts; primary bracts suberect, very broadly ovate, large, inflated, punctulate-Iepidote, submembranaceous, the lower ones exceeding the flowers and with long acuminate erect blades; branches up to 12 mm. long, 2-flowered or 3-flowered, compressed; floral bracts subreniform, suberect, inflated, 6-9 mm. long, much shorter than the sepals; pedicels 2-3 mm. long, very stout; sepals free but twisted into a slender tube, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 20 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, prominently nerved.
Type locality: Carillo, Costa Rica, altitude 300 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Guzmania donnellsmithii is a plant species in the genus Guzmania. This species is native to Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Ecuador.