Greigia sylvicola Standl.

Greigia sylvicola Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad 17: 160. 1927.
Plants large, terrestrial, arising from elongate rootstocks, the stems stout, 1-1.5 m. high, densely leafy; leaves up to 13 dm. long; sheaths 3-4 cm. wide, slightly inflated, entire, densely brown-appressed-Iepidote ; blades linear, acuminate, 12-18 mm. wide, obscurely brown-lepidote, finely striate, thin, bright-green when fresh, serrate to 15-18 cm. above the base with numerous antrorse, dark-brown, spinose teeth 1.5-3 mm. long and 8-22 mm. apart, along the middle unarmed or with very minute and remote teeth, the apex finely and densely spinose-serrate for 20-25 cm.; inflorescence terminal, nearly hidden among the leaves, capitate, many-flowered, about 5 cm. in diameter, borne on a stout bracted scape 4 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate or the outermost ovate, long-acuminate, the outer equaling the sepals, thin, sparsely brownlepidote, entire below, toward the apex densely serrate with coarse brown incurved teeth; flowers sessile; ovary 3-angled, 10-15 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter; .sepals free, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, 2 cm. long, entire, green, sparsely brown-lepidote; immature fruit about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. thick, many-seeded.
Type locality: Near I.aguna de la Esoiadra, northeast of El Copcy, Province of San Jos6, Costa Rica, altitude about 2200 meters.
Distribution: Dense wet forests of the high mountains of the Cant6n de Dota, Costa Rica.

Greigia sylvicola is a plant species in the genus Greigia. This species is native to Panama and Costa Rica.