plant epiphytic (ule!), stemless, flowering ca 25 cm tall. leaves ca 30 in a dense rosettes, ca 25 cm long; sheath sheath large, ovate, densely castaneous lepidote; blade near the sheaths to 10 mm wide, gradually narrowed toward the apex, rigid, subulate when dry, cinereous lepidote. inflorescence: peduncle slender, suberect, about half as long as the leaves, subglabrous, slightly angular, densely covered by foliaceous bracts, much surpassing the internodes; fertile part many flowered, erect or suberect, from between the leaves, to 11 cm long, about distichous of about 14 spikes, equal in length; primary bracts acuminala from a broadly ovate base, erect, abaxially scaly, not reaching the lowest flowers of the branches; spikes with a few sterile bracts at the base, ca 55 mm long, 6 mm wide, lanceolate, cunneate at base, apex acute; floral bracts only loosely imbricate, subchartaceous, acutish, not carinate, ca 7 mm long. flowers suberect, almost sessile, glabrous; sepals 8 mm long, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic, apex narrowly rounded; petals blade spreading at anthesis, elliptical, narrowly rounded. stamens excerting; anther linear, 4 mm long. pistil: ovary pyramidate; style slender; stigma slightly spiral.Translated by E.J.Gouda from: Gouda et al. 2018-2022. (protologue) Encyclopaedia of bromeliads .