Mezobromelia capituligera (Griseb.) J. R. Grant

Guzmania harrisii Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 927. 1S96
Stemless, the flowering plant I m. high or more; leaves (only the inner ones known) thick, coriaceous, glabrous throughout or minutely punctulale-lcpidote dors.illy, 6 dm. long; blades linear, acuminate, firm, 7 cm. wide; scape very stout; scape-bracts den.sely imbricate, stiffly erect, similar to the leaves but narrower; inflorescence very dense, almost strobiliform, 20 cm. long, 9 cm. in diameter, many-flowered, known only in a very immature state; primary bracts very ample, acuminate from a very broadly ovate base, the lower ones 12 cm. long, exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes very short, sessile, corymbose; floral bracts broadly elliptic, obtuse, about 30 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, subcoriaceous, glabrous; flowers slenderly pedicellate for 6 mm.; sepals subelliptic, acute, free.
Type i,ocai,ity: Jamaica.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Thecophyllum capituligerum (Griseb.) L. B. vSmith, Contr. Gray Herb. 98: 14. 1932.
Tiliandsia capiluligera Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 254. 1866.
Tillandsia fastuosa Andr6, Enum. Bromel. 8. 13 D 1888; Rev. Hortic. 60: 568. 16 D 1888.
Guzmania fastuosa Andrfe; Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 926. 1895.
Guzmania capiluligera Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 926. 1896.
Thecophyllum fastuosum Mez, in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4^-; 423. 1935.
Stemless, 5-S dm. high; leaves in a dense crateriform rosette, 7 dm. long; sheaths inconspicuous, brown, denselj' and minutely brown-lepidote; blades ligulate, acuminate, 6-8 cm. wide, glabrous above, obscurely punctulate-Iepidote below; scape erect, stout, shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, green or red; inflorescence columnar, many-flowered, 3-5 dm. long; primary bracts divergent to spreading, suborbicular, the lower ones exceeding the axillarj' spikes and bearing a narrowly triangular acuminate blade; spikes on a stout stipe up to 1 cm. long, subglobose, corymbose, 10-15-flowered, 3-4 cm. in diameter; floral bracts broadly elliptic or ovate, obtuse and apiculate, 25-30 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, chartaceous, prominently nerved; flowers erect on short stout pedicels, complanate; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 2 cm. long, ecarinate, coriaceous, even, glabrous; petals linear, obtuse, 28 mm. long, free, bearing 2 linear acuminate scales near the base, white; capsule slenderly ellipsoid, barely exceeding the sepals.
Type locality: Eastern Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba. Jamaica, and Hispaniola; also in Colombia.

Mezobromelia capituligera is a plant species in the genus Mezobromelia. This species is native to West Indies (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Trinidad, Leeward Islands) and northern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru).