plant probably flowering over 1 m high. leaves (only one known) 46 cm long; sheath elliptic, 20 cm long, 9 cm wide; blade ligulate, acuminate, 55 mm wide, obscurely punctulate-lepidote on both sides. inflorescence probably over 5 dm long, laxly once-branched, glabrous; primary bracts ovate, attenuate, 8 cm long, much shorter than the sterile bracteate bases of the branches; spikes pendent, linear, complanate, 20 cm long, ca 25 mm wide, densely many-flowered; rachis flexuous, narrowly alate; floral bracts imbricate and undoubtedly concealing the rachis at anthesis, broadly elliptic, obtuse or apiculate, 24 mm long, broadly convex, carinate, coriaceous, even. flowers subsessile; sepals ovateelliptic, obtuse, 20 mm long, 8 mm wide, free, faintly nerved, the adaxial carinate; petals 35 mm long. fruits equaling the sepals.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.