plant lithophytic, lacking rhizomes, flowering ca 40 cm tall. leaves ca 15 in number , densely rosulate, coriaceous; sheath broadly elliptic, l0x 7 cm, dark castaneous toward base, densely brown-lepidote on both sides; blade ligulate, not narrowed at base, suberect to spreading, 10 x 3.5 cm, apex acute to subrounded, apiculate and recurved, glabrous, green. inflorescence: peduncle suberect, ca 20 cm long, ca 0.5 cm in diameter, green, glabrous; peduncle bracts erect, ovate-lanceolate, the lowest with acuminate recurved apex, the upper with acute apex, about equaling the internodes; fertile part simple, suberect, sublinear, 14 x 1.5–2 cm, distichously 25-flowered; rachis 34 mm in diameter, geniculate, angled, green, glabrous; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, 15 x 12 mm long, glabrous, ecarinate or the upper obtusely carinate near the apex, slightly nerved when dry , green but soon drying toward apex, with short decurrent auricles at base, about equaling 1/2 of the sepals and not completely enfolding them, secund with the flowers. flowers ca 30 mm long, anthesis nocturnal, fragrant, densely arranged and secund at anthesis, with a 4 mm long stout pedicel; sepals subelliptic, emarginate, 16 x 9 mm, green with yellowish or castaneous margins, white-lepidote inside ecarinate thick at base; petals narrowly obovate, apex emarginate, subspreading at anthesis, 24 x 10 mm, greenish-white, bearing at base 2 acuminate 10 x 2.5 mm appendages adnate to the petals for ca 5 mm. stamens included; filament flexed about 1/2 of its length; anther ca 4 mm long, dorsi fixed near the base, base sagittate, apex recurved. pistil: stigma cupulate, lacerate, green.Edited from : Leme 1995b. (protologue) Miscellaneous new species of the Brazilian Bromeliaceae .