Bertero's Tufted Airplant

Guzmania berteroniana (Schultes) Mez, in DC Monog. Phan. 9: 904. 1896.
Caraguala Berteroniana Schultes, in R. & S. Syst. Veg. 7: 1229. 1830.
Devillea speciosa Bertero; Schultes, in R. & S. Syst. Veg. 7: 1229. as synonym. 1830.
TiUandsia Caraguala D. Dietr. Syn. PI. 2: 1059. 1840.
Caraguata grandiflora Baker, Handb. Bromel. 145. 1889.
Stemless, the flowering plant up to 4 dm. high; leaves many in a dense rosette, about 4 dm. long; sheaths ovate, inconspicuous, obscurely brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute or acuminate, 5 cm. wide, pale-green, glabrous; scape erect, much shorter than the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts erect and densely imbricate, elliptic, the lower ones foliaceous, the upper ones dark-red and bracteiform; inflorescence simple, many-flowered, about equaling the leaves, densely cylindric, up to 25 cm. long and 4 cm. in diameter, acute, sterile toward the apex; floral bracts erect and very densely imbricate, broadly elliptic, the lower acuminate, the upper apiculate, bright-miniate, glabrous, membranaceous; flowers subsessile, up to 6 cm. long, bright-yellow, definitely exceeding the bracts; sepals very broadly elliptic, obtuse, 22 mra. long, connate for 2 mm., glabrous, subcoriaceous, striate; corolla-lobes elliptic, obtuse, subspreading; stamens 4 mm. shorter than the petals; capsule subprismatic, acute, 3 cm. long; coma white.
Type uocalitv: Porto Rico.
Distribution; Santo Domingo and Porto Rico.

Guzmania berteroniana is a plant species in the genus Guzmania. It is native to Panama, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic but cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental. It can be found in the wild at the Toro Negro State Forest in Ponce, Puerto Rico.