plant flowering about 55 cm high. leaves in a dense rosette, 10–13 cm long, blades at the edge lax with to 1 mm long, brown, bent forward spines, upper side glabrous and green, underneath dense white scaled; sheath ± 34 mm long and 37 mm wide, edges quite finely toothed, upper side pale, underneath bright brown, both sides glabrous. inflorescence: peduncle 20–32 cm long, 2–3 mm Ø, light green, scaled, glabrous in age, middle internodes 17–24 mm long, 1,5–2 times as long as the 12–14 mm long, narrowly triangular, scaled, edges finely toothed to almost entire, keeled and nerved peduncle bracts; fertile part simple ( 8 -) 11–18 flowers, (13 in cross section), (10 -) 13–17 cm long; rachis bright green, fine pale felt, straight; floral bracts to 12 mm long, keeled, triangular to awl like,( particularly the lower ones), at the base toothed, upper part entire, underneath felty like rachis, flower stem and sepals. flowers spreading, ± clearly secund, 11–12 x 6–7 mm; pedicel bright orange, felty,( 3 -) 4–7 mm long, ± 1 mm diam., ± cylindrical, rather slim, three-quarters as long as the floral bracts; sepals bright orange, outside felty, inside glabrous, pointed to tipped, edges toothed, 6,5–7,5 mm long, not keeled; petals 12 x 8,5 mm, orange, its blade rhombic, with striking germ plasm in the upper half, blunt keeled. stamens enclosed in a ring, filament 1–1,5 mm high above the common growth joined with the petals, anthers yellow, broad and flattened cylindrical, stigma on a distinct, conical style. fruits unknown.Edited from : Till & Morawetz 1990. (protologue) Eine neue Dyckia aus Pernambuco, Brasilien: Dyckia rupestris W. Till & W. Morawetz, spec. nov. .