Guzmania zahnii (Hook. fil.) Mez

Bosques muy húmedos.

Distribucion en Costa Rica: Fila Bustamante (Tiquires, Colorado de Acosta), fila Tinamastes, San Vito de Coto Brus, Península de Osa, a una elevación entre 25 y 1100 m.
Distribucion General: De Nicaragua a Panamá.

Epífita.

A pesar de no ser una especie muy común, establece poblaciones relativamente altas en los sitios donde se encuentra.

Epífitas. Hojas de 28 a 70 por 1.2 a 2.6 cm. Láminas de agudas a acuminadas, con líneas longitudinales moradas cerca de la vaina. Escapo de 24 a 31 (38) cm., erecto. Brácteas más largas que los entrenudos, de rojizas a verde-rojizas. Inflorescencia de 4 a 10 cm., unipinnada. Brácteas primarias inferiores más largas que las espigas. Espigas de 1.5 a 2.5 cm., multifloras. Brácteas florales de 0.9 a 1.5 cm., rojizas, subcartáceas, carinadas, nervadas. Flores subsésiles. Sépalos de 1.3 a 1.8 cm., de amarillos a crema, connatos por 3 a 6 mm., nervados. Pétalos amarillos. Cápsulas de 2.5 a 3 cm. Se reconoce por sus inflorescencias con las espigas densamente aglomeradas en la porción terminal, los ramos polísticos hasta de 2.5 cm largo, brácteas rojizas y hojas con líneas longitudinales cerca de la base.

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Guzmania zahnii (Hook, f.) Mez, in DC Monog. Phan. 9: 940. 1896.
Caraguala Zahnii Hook. f. Bot. Mag. pi. 6059. 1873.
Stemless or slightly caulescent and branching, the flowering plant about 5 dm. high; leaves 20-30 in a rosette, suberect to spreading, up to 6 dm. long; sheaths narrowly ovate, scarcely distinct, obscurely brown-lepidote, flavous with dark-red longitudinal stripes; bl.-idcs lingulate, acuminate, 27 mm. wide, chartaceous to membranaceous, glabrous at maturity, i)urplc-red throughout or green near the apex, marked dorsally or on both sides with red-brown longitudinal stripes; scape slightly shorter than the leaves, erect, glabrous, red; scape-bracts erect and densely imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, bright-scarlet; inflorescence densely bipinnate, pyramidal or short-thyrsoid, up to 25 cm. long and 10 cm. in diameter, glabrous, brightyellow in all its parts; primary bracts very broadly ovate with an acuminate lamina, the lower ones purple-tipped and exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes suberect to spreading, the lower distinctly stipitate, subcapitate, 5-12-flowered, less than 5 cm. long including the flowers; floral bracts broadly elliptic to suborbicular, broadly obtuse, strongly convex, carinate, 10 mm. long, shorter than the sepals; flowers subsessile; sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 18 mm. long, connate for 2.5 mm., strongly carinate; petals elliptic, obtuse, about 3 cm. long, connate for 7 mm.; filaments connate with the petals for most of their length; pistil exceeding the petals; capsule cylindric, 24 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter; coma subferruginous.
TvPK I.OCALITV: Chiriquf V'olcano, Panama. Distribl'Tion; Known only from the type localily. Illi.-straTions; Bot. Mas. pi. 6059; Bc-lg. Hortic. 23: pi. 10, 30.

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

Guzmania zahnii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bromeliaceae. Loài này được (Hook.f.) Mez mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1896.