Guzmania xanthobractea is a species of plant in the family Bromeliaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The species is a terrestrial or epiphyte, clustering, flowering to 1m (03feet) high. Rosulate, spreading leaves are 80mm100mm long with elliptic, brown leaf sheaths, to 9cmx6cmcm (04inchesx02inchescm) wide; leaf blades are ligulate, acuminate, 30mm50mm wide. Scape is red, curved, about 5mm in diameter with subfoliaceous, erect, densely imbricate bracts. Inflorescence is laxly bipinnate, about 40cm–50cmcm (20inches–20inchescm) x 15cm–20cmcm (06inches–10inchescm); primary bracts are green and red, ovate, acuminate, 4cm–8cmcm (02inches–03inchescm) long; spikes are ascending, subdensely ellipsoid, 10cm–14cmcm (00inches–06inchescm) long, 40mm45mm in diameter, 9–15-flowered. Floral bracts are yellow, imbricate toward apex of spike, obovate, 35mm40mm x 15mm wide, thin, nerved. Sepals are obovate, acute, 20mm22mm x 5mm7mm, glabrous. Petals are about 5cm (02inches) long with green lobes.