plant flowering over 8 dm high, propagating by stout erect rhizomes. leaves densely tubular- or funnel form-rosulate, 4–6 dm long, densely punctulate-lepidote on both sides; sheath large, very broadly elliptic, dark castaneous; blade ligulate, broadly acute, 8 cm wide, subdensely serrate with dark spines 4 mm long. inflorescence: peduncle erect, 47 cm or higher, 6 mm in diameter, densely punctulate-lepidote; peduncle bracts remote, oblong, acute, 7 cm long (only one seen); fertile part elongate, much interrupted; primary bracts spreading or reflexed, like the peduncle-bract, laxly serrulate, longer than the abortive axillary branches; spikes 2–5 in a corymbose fascicle in each axil, stout ellipsoid, 3 cm long, without any tomentum; floral bracts suborbicular, pungent -apiculate, slightly shorter than the sepals, obtusely carinate, coriaceous, punctulate-lepidote. flowers: sepals broadly ovate, rounded and mucronulate, 11 mm long; petals appendaged, the blade oblong, obtuse, 7 mm long, yellow. pistil: ovary 6 mm long, the epigynous tube minute; ovules caudate.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.