Vriesea incurva (Griseb.) Read

Tillandsia incurva Griseb. Nachr. Ges. Wiss Gott. 1864: 15. 1865.
TMandiia ditilata Mcz, in DC. Monog. Plian. 9: 715. 1896.
TiUandiia castaneobulboia Mcz 8c Wcrcklf; Mcz, Hull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 140. 1903.
Stemless, 15-40 cm. long with the inflorescence extended; leaves many in a dense subbulbous rosette, 15-35 cm. long, very densely and finely appressed-lepidote throughout; sheaths large, distinct, broadly ovate to suborbicular, dark-castaneous; blades narrowly triangular, long-acuminate, usually flat, 2-3 cm. wide, cinereous-lepidote; scape arching-decurved, slender, short, much obscured by the leaves, lepidote at least when young ; scape-bracts barely imbricate, tubular-involute, obovate or elliptic, densely appressed-lepidote, at least the lower ones caudate; inflorescence pendulous, simple or digitate with 2-5 spikes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, scarcely larger than the floral bracts; spikes strict, linear or lance-linear with several sterile bracts at the base, acute, 10-24 cm. long, strongly complanate, 7-16-flowered; rhachis flexuous, slender, strongly angled, excavated next the flowers, lepidote at first; floral bracts erect or slightly divergent, two to three times as long as the internodes but usually exposing most of the rhachis, elliptic, obtuse, 25-35 mm. long, much exceeding the sepals, ecarinate at maturity, red, submembranaceous, nered to almost even, appressed-lepidote to glabrous; flowers distinctly pedicellate; sepals elliptic, obtuse or apiculate, 15-20 mm. long, ecarinate, even, soon glabrous, stramineous, thin, free; petals ligulate, 35 mm. long, yellow; stamens exserted at anthesis, anthers linear, 4 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, altitude 2000 meters.
Distribution: Southern Florida; Cuba and Jamaica; Costa Rica; also in Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia.

Vriesea incurva is a plant species in the genus Vriesea. This species is an epiphyte native to Central America (Costa Rica and Panama), the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola), and South America (Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador).