Guzmania scherzeriana Mez

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Distribucion en Costa Rica: Cordillera de Guanacaste (cara al sector del Atlántico), Cordillera de Tilarán, faldas de la Cordillera Volcánica Central (sector del Atlántico), Parque Nacional Tapantí, filas costeras de Tarrazú, Golfito, a una elevación entre 100 y 1500 m.
Distribucion General: De Belice a Colombia, Ecuador.

Epífita.

Epífitas, acaules. Hojas de 31 a 72 por 4 a 5.5 cm., cartáceas. Vainas crema-canela, a veces con una banda oscura basalmente, densamente lepidotas. Láminas liguladas, de glabras a glabras atenuadas. Escapo de 35 a 53 cm., erecto. Brácteas más largas que los entrenudos, de anaranjadas a amarillo-anaranjadas. Inflorescencia de 15 a 35 (48.5) cm., unipinnada. Brácteas primarias más cortas que las espigas, de anaranjadas a verde-anaranjado. Espigas de 4 a 14 cm., patentes, multifloras. Brácteas florales de 1.6 a 1.9 cm., anaranjadas o verde-anaranjadas, coriáceas, carinadas, lisas o casi lisas. Flores de divergentes a ascendentes, corto-pediceladas. Sépalos de 2.4 a 3 cm., verdes, de crema a verde-amarillo, connatos por 9 a 15 mm., coriáceos, nervados. Pétalos amarillos, verdes apicalmente. Cápsulas de 2.7 a 3.1 cm. Se reconoce por sus inflorescencias pinnadas, con las brácteas primarias más cortas que las espigas, anaranjadas a rojizo-anaranjadas, con las flores amarillas.

Localidad del tipo: Costa Rica, Cartago.
Depositario del tipo: HT: W perdido.
Recolector del tipo: Scherzer s. n.

Guzmania scherzeriana Mez, in DC. MonoR riuin. 9: 949. 1896.
I.,eaf-blade.s at least 4 dm. long, linear, 43 mm. wide, green, glabrous, submcinbranaccous when dry ; scape creel, short, stout ; scape-bracts erect , densely imbricate, ovale, IrMig-aciiminate, pungent; inflorcKencc paniculate, bipinnate, subdcn.sc, probably u]i to 4 dm. long and manyflowered; axes angled, glabrous; primary bracts broadly ovate, about half as long as the axillary branches, strongly convex, brown when dry, glabrous outside, sparsely white-punctulate inside, the lower acuminate, the upper acute; branches suberect to spreading, up to 7 cm. long, about 5-flowered with the flowers 1 cm. apart; floral bracts suberect, broadly ovate, obtuse, 17 mm. long, much shorter than the sepals, strongly convex, the lower ones strongly carinate; flowers 33 mm. long, glabrous; sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 25 mm. long, 8.5 mm. wide, coriaceous, connate for 10 mm.; petals connate for most of their length.
Tyfb locality: Near Cartage, Costa Rica, altitude 1700 meters. DisTRLBrTiON: Known only from the type collection.

Guzmania guatemalensis L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 8. 1937.
Plant 6 dm. high, probably stemless; leaves over 6 dm. long; sheaths large, ovate; blades ligulate, acute, apiculate, 45 mm. wide; scape erect, 7 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts foliaceous, erect, densely imbricate; inflorescence very laxljbipinnate, subpyramidal, 25 cm. long, glabrous; primary bracts very broadly ovate, acute, reaching only the second flower of the axillary branch; racemes ascending or spreading, 10-12 cm. long, very laxly 10-12-flowered; rhachis nearly straight; floral bracts very broadly elliptic, obtuse, 2 cm. long, much exceeded by the sepals, inflated, not at all carinate, subcoriaceous, even, stramineous when dry; flowers spreading; pedicels stout, 4 mm. long; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 25 mm. long, ecarinate, coimate for 10 mm.; petals 33 mm. long.
Type locality: Dept. Alta Verapaz, Chama, Guatemala, altitude 330 meters. DistribuTio.n: Known only from the t>'pe collection.

Guzmania scherzeriana is a plant species in the genus Guzmania. This species is native to Central America (known from all countries except El Salvador), Colombia and Ecuador.

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