Guzmania xanthobractea is a species of plant in the family Bromeliaceae.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The species is a terrestrial or epiphyte, clustering, flowering to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high.

Rosulate, spreading leaves are 80–100 mm (3.1–3.9 in) long with elliptic, brown leaf sheaths, to 9 cm × 6 cm (3.5 in × 2.4 in) wide; leaf blades are ligulate, acuminate, 30–50 mm (1.2–2.0 in) wide.

Scape is red, curved, about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter with subfoliaceous, erect, densely imbricate bracts.