leaves unknown peduncle robust, to 20 cm long, clothed with long filiform sheaths, exceeding the internodes. inflorescence many flowered, a once-branched panicle, from the larger terminal spikes there are 3–8 lateral smaller spikes, to 40 cm long and 25 cm wide at the middle; spikes subpinnate, the lowest ones shorter than the primary bracts, the remainder exceeding them, often more than 25 flowered, subsessile, erect to sub-erect, to 10 cm long and 35 mm wide, linear; primary bracts the same shape as the peduncle sheaths; floral bracts recurved spreading, not imbricate, not concealing the rachis, the back glabrous and finely prominently veined, strongly inflated concave, in no way carinate, fleshy-leathery, flattened nearly perfect orbicular, tip rounded with a slender mucron, to 3 cm long, exceeding the sepals not hiding them. flowers with the smallest pedicel, almost sessile sepals connate for 3mm, leathery, back glabrous, smooth, broad-elliptic, becoming acute, symmetric, to 25 mm long petals unknown.Edited from : Mez 1935. (protologue) Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.