plant epiphytic or rarely saxicolous, acaulescent or short-caulescent. leaves polystichous, uniform, concolorous, narrowly triangular with scarcely any distinction between sheath and blade, 20–30 cm long; the scales appressed, pale cinereous to almost white. inflorescence: peduncle curved, ascending, 10–20 cm long, slender; peduncle bracts subfoliaceous, imbricate; fertile part simple to 5-branched; spikes erect, linear, attenuate, to 18 cm long, 15 mm wide at anthesis; floral bracts imbricate and concealing the rachis at anthesis, ovate, acute, ca 25 mm long, thin, nerved, densely appressed-lepidote, more or less carinate toward apex, pale pink in life. flowers: sepals lanceolate, acute, 25 mm long, thin, nerved, lepidote, the adaxial pair strongly carinate, connate; petals erect and forming a tube, light purple in life. stamens exserted, filaments purple. fruits prismatic, 4 cm long.Edited from : Smith & Dimmitt 1984. (protologue) New Bromeliads-2: Tillandsia sonorensis .