plant up to 25 cm high. leaves in no way forming a bulbose rosette, to 17 cm long, to 2 cm wide at base, not at all distinct from the sheath, tapering gradually to a subulate acute tip, rigid, totally grey lepidote. inflorescence: peduncle erect, exceeding by a very long way the very short leaves, enveloped by the top of the sheath of the peduncle bracts which has a blade that is slightly recurved, dense lepidote on the back; fertile part very dense, subcapitate, once-branched panicle, almost many flowered, exceeding the leaves, compact, comprising strong spikes more or less pinnate, all equally inserted on the axis, up to 7.5 cm long, 7.0 cm diam., that i saw, spikes dense fan-shaped, 8–12 flowered, all suberect sometimes appressed, sessile, to 4 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, lanceolate, outer face becoming convex primary bracts well exceeded by the spike floral bracts rigid, on the back dense grey lepidote, densely imbricate, prominentlt veined, obtuse carinate, to 1.2 cm long, about equakking the sepals. flowers erect, 1.5 cm long sepals adaxial pair connate to the middle, glabrous, the narrow tip rounded all the way carinate, 1 cm long.Edited from : Mez 1935. (protologue) Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.