Catopsis werckleana Mez

Catopsis werckleana Mez, Bull. Herb Boiss. 11. 4: 1125. 1904.
Plant up to 54 cm. high with the inflorescence extended; leaves about 10 in a cyathifortn rosette, up to 23 cm. long, not at all cretaceous; sheaths very large, densely and minutely brown-punctulate; blades short, up to 53 mm. wide, rounded, apiculate or retuse; scape decurved, up to 25 cm. long, terete, glabrous; scape-bracts remote, elliptic, abruptly acute; inflorescence very lax; branches simple, 15 cm. long with elongate sterile naked bases; primary bracts much shorter than the branches, laxly flowered; floral bracts ovate, obtuse, 5 mm. long, much shorter than the sepals ; flowers probably dioecious, only the fruiting pistillate ones known ; sepals strongly asymmetric, 9 mm. long, subcoriaceous, prominently nerved, brown-spotted at apex; capsules slenderly ovoid, acute, 15 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Tucurrique, Costa Rica, altitude 800 meters. Distribution: Costa Rica.

Catopsis werckleana is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Costa Rica.