Pitcairnia megasepala Baker

Pitcairnia theae Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 376. 1896
Hepetis Theae Mez. in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 974. 1896.
Flowering plant over 5 dm. high; stem short, erect, not at all bulbous; leaves dimorphic or trimorphic, some of the outer ones reduced to mere sheaths, others with linear brown persistent sparsely serrate blades, the inner ones with well developed blades, not at all constricted between sheath and blade but serrate below the line of scission; blades green, deciduous, linear, acuminate, 5 dm. long, 17 mm. wide, entire, densely furfuraceous below; scape well developed, erect, appressed-cinereous-lepidote, becoming glabrous; scape-bracts strict, much exceeding the interno<les, narrowly triangular, acuminate, sparsely lepidote, the upper ones 5 cm. long ; inflorescence simple, racemose, subcylindric, a fruiting specimen 2 dm. long, 9 cm. in diameter, cincreousfurfuraceous; floral bracts triangular, acuminate, spreading or reflexed, exceeding the pedicels, entire, sparsely canescent; flowers more or less nodding in fruit; pedicels 15 mm. long, incanous; sepals triangular, acuminate, about 35 mm. long, slightly carinate at the ba.se, cinereouslepidote; petals appcndaged; ovary almost superior; capsule slenderly ovoid, deeply trisulcate, long-ljcaked, about 24 mm. long; seeds long-caudate at both ends.
Typb locality: Woods, near Bonica, Costa Rica. Distribution: Known only from the tyi>c locality.

Pitcairnia megasepala is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. This species is native to Costa Rica.