Mesoamerantha guatemalensis (Mez)) I. Ramírez & K. Romero  

; 0 rosettes 85–150 cm diam., ca 80 cm. leaves 20 to 30; sheath 2–5.2 × 3–7 cm; blade acuminate at apex, 20–91 cm, 2.5–5 cm wide at the base, pale green to dark green, occasionally with reddish margins and apex, the marginal spines 2–5 mm, 4–17 mm apart, green to dark castaneous; staminate inflorescence a 2- or 3-divided panicle, 1.5–2 m. inflorescence: peduncle 30–68 cm, 0.5–1.5 cm diam; at the base, green to reddish, the internodes (1.5–)3–7 cm, increasing in length to the apex; peduncle bracts with sheath 0.9–1.7 × 0.8–2.5 cm; blade 14–27 × 0.5–2 cm, greenish, with a short tuft of white trichomes between spines; axis 0.7–1.2 m, 0.4–0.8 cm diam; at the base, green to reddish, the internodes 3–6.5 cm; primary bracts 1.5–6(–11) × 0.6–1.5 cm, green to pale brown, spiny to entire toward the apex, the basal ones white-lepidote abaxially, the apical ones glabrous adaxially; branches 12 to 14, with the stipe ascending and the rachis mostly spreading, 20–41 cm, 2–6 mm diam; at the base, pale green to reddish, the stipe 2–10 cm, flat at the base; secondary bracts triangular, acuminate at apex, 0.5–1.5 × 0.1–0.6 cm, pale brown, entire, glabrous, 3-nerved to multinerved; secondary branches 5–20 cm, 1–2 mm diam; tertiary bracts triangular, 2–7 × 1.5 mm, glabrous, deciduous, tertiary branches 5–9 cm; floral bracts narrowly triangular, acuminate to acute at apex, 1.5–4(–6) × 1–2 mm, green to brownish, entire, 1-nerved. flowers ascending to diffuse, with a vestigial ovary, when dry the basal part shrinks and resembles a pedicel 2 mm; sepals ovate to lanceolate, acute and mucronate at apex, 1–3 × 1–2 mm, entire, white with ocher to green hues; petals elliptic to oblong, acute at apex, 3.5–5(–6) × 1–2 mm, white. stamens 1.8–4.5 mm; filament 1.5–4 mm; anther 1.2–2 × 0.6 mm, yellow; pistillode 1.5–3 mm, with stigmatic lobes 0.5–1.5 mm; ; pistillate inflorescence a 2- or 3-divided panicle, erect to arching, 1–2 m; peduncle 38–93 cm, 0.5–1.5 cm diam; at the base, green to pale brown, the internodes 2.5–5 cm; peduncle bracts with sheath 0.8–1.5 × 0.8–1.7 cm; blade 7–20 × 1.5–2 cm, green with reddish margins and apex, with a short tuft of white trichomes in the axil of the spines; axis 0.6–1.2 m, 0.5–1.4 cm diam; at the base, green to reddish, the internodes 3–8 cm; primary bracts 1.5–4.5(–9) × 0.4– 1.2 cm, green to pale brown, spiny to entire toward the apex, the basal ones white-lepidote abaxially, the apical ones glabrous adaxially; branches many, with the stipe ascending and the rachis mostly spreading, 7.5– 53 cm, 2–5 mm diam; at the base, pale green, the stipe 3–8.5 cm, flat at the base; secondary bracts triangular, acuminate at apex, 0.2–0.7 × 0.1–0.3 cm, pale brown, entire, glabrous, 3-nerved to multinerved; secondary branches 7–23 cm, 1–2 mm diam; tertiary bracts triangular, 3 × 1.5 mm, glabrous, deciduous, tertiary branches 4–8 cm; floral bracts narrowly triangular to lanceolate, acuminate at apex, 2–5 × 0.8–2 mm, green to brownish, entire or (occasionally) erose, multinerved. flowers divaricate to reclinate; sepals ovate to ovate-triangular, acute to acuminate and mucronate at apex, 1.5–3.2 × 1.2–2.5 mm, entire, white with brown dots toward apex or entirely green; petals elliptic to oblong, acute at apex, 3–5 × 1.2–2 mm, white; staminodes 1.2–2.5 × 0.5 mm. pistil: ovary 3–4 mm, 1–2 mm diam., the epidermis green with white dots, the stigmatic lobes 1.5–3 mm. fruits wide-ellipsoid, 5–11 mm, 3–5 mm diam., green when immature, deflexed to the rachis of the branch; seeds 3–5 mm, brownish, with 2 yellow-reddish wings, one wing 0.2–1 mm, the other one 0.5–1 mm.

Edited from : Romero et al. 2022. A Taxonomic Revision of the Central American Genus Mesoamerantha (Bromeliaceae: Hechtioideae) .