Guzmania ferruginea H. Luther, sp. nov. TYPE: Ecuador. Ex hort Ecugenera Cia Ltda, Ecuador via J. Kent, no specific locality. Flowered in cultivation SEL 2007-212, 20 Aug 2009, H.E. Luther s.n. (Holotype: SEL).
A Guzmania calamifolia Andre ex Mez, cui similis et affinis, vaginis foliorum ferrugineo lepidotis differt.Plant a densely clustering terrestrial or lithophyte, flowering 45-120 cm tall. Leaves erect to spreading, rosulate, 8 to 20 in number, 75-120 cm long; leaf sheaths narrowly elliptic, 4-12 x 2-4 cm, castaneous with a thin pale margin, nerved, proximally very densely covered with asymmetrical and shaggy dark ferruginous trichomes; leaf blades linear, attenuate, 3-7mm wide, involute, inconspicuously and obtusely plicate, densely ferruginous lepidote toward the sheath especially abaxially becoming scattered dark punctate-lepidote toward the apex. Scape erect, stiff, 30-100 cm x 2-5 mm, sparsely...