plant flowering 6 dm high with inflorescence erected. leaves lanceolate with practically no distinction between sheath and blade, attenuate, 4 dm long, 7 cm wide, flat, scarious-margined, obscurely brown-punctulate, verruculose. inflorescence: peduncle slender, arching, glabrous; its bracts erect, much exceeding the internodes, foliaceous; fertile part subpendulous, rather densely 3-pinnate, over 3 dm long, glabrous; primary bracts very broadly ovate, long-acuminate, much shorter than the axillary branches; spikes slenderly long-stipitate, subsecund, to 1 dm long, densely flowered; floral bracts squamiformovate, about one third as long as the sepals. flowers perfect, suberect; sepals elliptic- oblong, strongly asymmetric, 9 mm long; petals ligulate, asymmetric, white, barely exserted; styles 3, short but distinct.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.