plant flowering to 5 dm high. leaves recurved, slightly over 1 dm long; blade densely and coarsely white-pulverulent, coarsely repand-serrate with thick teeth 4 mm long. inflorescence: peduncle stout, glabrous with age; peduncle bracts remote, thick, entire, densely white-lepidote; fertile part simple, laxly subcylindric, 14 cm long, glabrous; floral bracts spreading, lance-triangular, acuminate, 8 mm long, much shorter than the pedicels. flowers: pedicel divergent to spreading, 20–25 (–35) mm long, thickened toward apex. flowers erect or suberect; sepals broadly ovate, 10 mm long; petals green (! schwacke). fruits subglobose, apiculate, 14 mm long.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.