plant known only from old fragments, flowering over 14 dm high. leaves unknown, but undoubtedly like the lower peduncle-bracts only larger. inflorescence: peduncle erect, very slightly flexuous, glabrous at least in age; peduncle bracts erect and closely enfolding the peduncle, sparsely and obscurely lepidote, the lower ones imbricate with ovate sheaths ca 7 cm long and very narrow, triangular blades to 75 cm long, the upper merely acute and shorter than the internodes; fertile part simple, laxly and distichously many-flowered, over 30 cm long, ca 3 cm wide, glabrous at least with age; rachis 5–7 mm thick at base, slightly flexuous; floral bracts erect or suberect, ovate, broadly rounded and apiculate, to 4 cm long, from shorter than the internodes to nearly twice as long, distinctly exceeded by the sepals, convex, ecarinate, thin-coriaceous and nerved when dry; (broad ovate, 30–40 x 27mm, ecarinate or towards the tip blunt carinate pedicels distinct, ca 7 mm long. flowers erect, not at all secund.(ca 75 mm long, yellowish green - hatschbach) sepals elliptic, obtuse (?), 25 mm long, ecarinate; (oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 25–30 x 10–13mm) petals unknown (linear, tip narrow obtuse, 65 x 7mm, no appendages but near the base two tenuous callouses) stamens unknown; ( filaments free, anthere linear, ca 9 mm long, both sides obtuse,) (capsules immature, long attenuate).Edited from : Bromelia. (protologue) .