plant epiphytic, to 85 cm high leaves few (6), forming a tubular rosette blades with a long furrow, leathery, stiff, with a bent back tip, green-grey with white cross stripes, 14 x 7 cm to 80 x 10 cm, from the base to halfway entire, to the tip with antrorse spines, flattened, dark brown, 2–4 mm long. inflorescence: peduncle first erect, later bent over, powdery, to 40 cm long, covered with bracts; peduncle bracts the lower ones white, triangular, spiny, 6 x 4.5 cm, the upper ones lanceolate, acuminate, entire, pink, very striking, to 20 x 3 cm inflorescence hanging, simple, powdery scaled; floral bracts inconspicuously small, triangular, pink, to 3 x 2.5mm. flowers over 30, hanging, sessile; sepals triangular, whitish at the base, dark violet at the tip, powdery scaled, 9 x 5mm; petals linear acuminate, at flowering bent back spirally, blue-violet at base with a lighter mid stripe, light blue at tip, 60 x 6mm, at the base with 2 many toothed ligules. stamens 60 mm long, in groups filament violet at the base, and the tip lighter; anther violet 15 mm long, style thicker than the filament, light blue, 60 mm long. pistil: stigma 3 lobed, blue, 5 mm long; ovary egg shaped, triangular in cross section, 20 mm long, 10 mm wide, sulcate, powdery scaled.Edited from : Vasquez & Ibisch 2000. (protologue) Drei neue Bromelienarten aus Bolivien: Bittbergia mohammadii, Pitcairnia heydtauffii und Puya cochabambensis .