| Name | Billbergia speciosa Thunberg |
| Authorship | Thunberg |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Billbergia Thunberg |
| Citation | 1821 Pl. Bras. 3: 30, pl. |
| Holdings | 26 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Billbergia speciosa Thunberg |
| Identification made in | [no date] (8), 1939 (4), 1940 (9), 1941 (5) |