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|accepted_name=Guzmania
|accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavón
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora Peruviana
|place=3: 37. 1802
|year=1802
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Guzmania
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Guzmania]]</div></div>
|etymology=for A. Guzman, an 18th-century Spanish naturalist
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 296
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> usually epiphytic, stemless to rarely caulescent. <b>Leaves</b> many-ranked, usually ligulate, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–many-flowered, many-ranked, mostly 2-pinnate to less commonly single spike, flowers laxly to densely arranged; floral bracts broad, conspicuous, mostly obscuring rachis. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals distinct to connate over 1/2 length, usually symmetric; petals with claws adherent to subconnate petal, forming short tube, blade distinct; stamens usually included, adherent to adnate with petal claws; ovary superior. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> with basal, usually tan-brown plumose appendage.</span><!--

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|distribution=Widespread in the moist Neotropics.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 160 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=bennet1992a
|text=Bennet, B. C. 1992. The Florida bromeliads: Guzmania monostachia. J. Bromeliad Soc. 42: 266--270.
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name=Guzmania
|author=Harry E. Luther;Gregory K. Brown
|authority=Ruiz & Pavón
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|distribution=Widespread in the moist Neotropics.
|reference=bennet1992a
|publication title=Flora Peruviana
|publication year=1802
|special status=
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|genus=Guzmania
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