leaves about 20, densely rosulate, lanceolate-acuminate from an ovate base 3 in; broad, 11/2 –2 ft; long, 2 in; broad at the base of the blade, tapering gradually to a long point, moderately firm in texture, glaucous beneath. inflorescence: peduncle longer than the leaves; bract-leaves all small, adpressed; fertile part a lax panicle 11/2 ft; long; branches few, lax, subpatent, simple, the lower a foot long; rachises not flexuose. flowers adpressed to the rachis; floral bracts ovate, 3/4 in; long; calyx not longer than the bract; sepals oblong. petals lingulate, white, twice as long as the calyx.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .