Werauhia stenophylla (Mez & Wercklé) J. R. Grant

Thecophyllum stenophyllum Mez & Werckle; Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 875. 1904.
Stemless, the flowering plant small and graceful, up to 22 cm. high; leaves as many as 20 in a fasciculate rosette, about 17 cm. long; sheaths elliptic, dark-castaneous basally, very minutely immersed-lepidote ; blades linear, acuminate, 6-8 mm. wide, subglabrous, coriaceous when dry, marked toward the base with longitudinal red stripes; scape erect, slender, shorter than the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous; inflorescence fewflowered, about equaling the leaves, spiciform, 4 cm. long; primary bracts spreading to reflexed, triangular, acuminate to a very narrowly obtuse apex, about 28 mm. long, stiff; branches wholly aborted; floral bracts very broadly squamiform, obtuse, 2.5 mm. long, membranaceous, ecarinate; flowers sessile, 2 in the axil of each primary bract; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 11 mm. long, 7 mm. wide, thick, coriaceous, even.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution : Known only from the type collection .

Werauhia stenophylla is a plant species in the genus Werauhia. This species is native to Costa Rica.