; 0 plant- stemless, flowering to 60 cm high, leaves numerous making a slender, occasionally twisted, 30–40 cm high rosette. leaves: sheath - a little indistinct, broad ovate, 12–15 cm long, 6–8 cm wide, top side dark brown-black, underneath light leathery brown appressed scales; blade - erect, bent over, robust, thin triangular, ca 50 cm long, 4 cm wide near sheath, smooth, gradually tapering to a long reflexed tip, both sides with dense appressed white lepidote, blade for that reason seems greyish-white. inflorescence: peduncle - erect to bent over, to 30 cm long, 8 mm thick, round, light green, naked, densely covered by the stem bract sheaths; peduncle bracts - leaf like at the bottom with both sides grey lepidote, more erect or sharply bent blade; inflorescence- erect, once-branched, sometimes twice-branched at the base, with more or less 10 erect laxly arranged spikes, ca 20 cm long, ca 3 cm wide; primary bracts - erect, shorter than the spike, but longer than the sterile section, grey to dark purple colour, thin triangular, 3–7 cm long; spike- erect with 3–4 cm long sterile leafy bottom section, the fertile section thin lance-like, 5–6 cm long,1–1.5 cm wide, complanate 4–5 flowered, spike rachis flat edged; floral bracts - densely imbricate, the tip keeled, faintly nerved and scattered appressed lepidote, otherwise naked green, brownishviolet edged, 2.5 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, overhang the sepals; sepals- free, both adaxial ones keeled, naked, thin, green, 1.7 cm long and 5 mm wide; petal- 3.5 cm long, 5 mm wide, tips spreading, blue-violet. pistil: style and stigma exceed the flower.Edited from : Rauh 1984b. Bromelienstudien (Mitteilung 15). I. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern .