Tufted Airplant

Guzmania angustifolia (Baker) Wittm. Bot Jahrb. 11: 62. 1889.
Caraguala angustifolia Baker, Gard. Chron. II. 22: 616. 1884.
Guzmania Bulliana Andrt, Rev. Hortic. 58: 324. 1886.
Guzmania caulescens Mez & Sodiro; MeE, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 112. 1905.
Stem from quite short to about 2 dm. long; leaves densely and evenly distributed along the stem, 8-15 cm. long, green above, purplish below; sheaths distinct, elliptic, densely browupunctulate-lepidote ; blades very narrowly triangular, acuminate, 10 mm. wide, suberect or slightly spreading, punctulate-lepidote ; scape slender, almost wholly concealed by the leaves; inflorescence few-flowered, stoutly fusiform, up to 65 mm. long and 40 mm. in diameter, sterile toward the apex; floral bracts ample, ovate-elliptic, acute or subacuminate, erect, much exceeding the sepals, slightly shorter than the flowers at anthesis, membranaceous, bright-red with dark tips; flowers subsessile; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 15-20 mm. long, membranaceous, glabrous, connate for 3 mm.; petals bright-yellow, 7 cm. long, connate in a slender tube for 6 cm., the free lobes subelliptic, obtuse; stamens 4 mm. shorter than the petals; filaments connate with the petals for nearly their whole length; capsule prismatic, acute, 28 mm. long.
Type locality: Colombia.
Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama; also in Colombia and Ecuador.

Guzmania angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador.