Guzmania spectabilis (Mez & Wercklé) Utley

Thecophyllum spectabile Mez & Werckle; Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 873. 1904.
Leaves as many as 20 in a cyathiform rosette, about 4 dm. long; sheaths indistinct, brown, covered with very appressed brown scales; blades ligulate, abruptly acute, 35 mm. %vide, stiffly coriaceous when dry, densely pale-appressed-lepidote; scape erect, stout, half as long as the leaves; scape-bracts very densely imbricate, foliaceous but much smaller and less rigid than the leaves, erect; inflorescence up to 16-flowered, dense, cylindric, 15 cm. long, 7 cm. in diameter; primary bracts suberect even to the apices, ovate, acute or obtusish, about 6 cm. long, exceeding the axillary flowers, finely lepidote below; branches wholly aborted; flowers 2 in the axil of each primary bract. [Description compiled.]
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.