Guzmania zahnii (Hook. fil.) Mez

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.