; 0 only the staminate plant known, to 5 dm high. leaves 27 cm long; sheath broadly ovate, 25 mm long, flavous or castaneous, serrulate, glabrous; blade narrowly triangular, pungent, 1–2 cm wide, splashed with bright-rose, densely appressed-white-lepidote but soon becoming glabrous above, the teeth distant, 4 mm long, straight or uncinate, dark-castaneous. inflorescence: peduncle slender, strongly compressed, soon glabrous; peduncle bracts small, ovate, acute, thin, the upper remote; fertile part laxly once-branched, 2 dm long, pale-lepidote; primary bracts like the peduncle-bracts, much shorter than the axillary spikes; spikes suberect, dense or subdense, 2–5 cm long, 1 cm in diameter; floral bracts suborbicular, apiculate, nearly equaling the sepals, very thin, rose with a broad hyaline margin, erose. flowers suberect, subsessile; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 5 mm long, 3-nerved, broadly hyaline margined; petals elliptic, obtuse, 8 mm long, pale-lepidote outside, connate for 3 mm. stamens included.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.