; 0 differs from similar t; 1 capillaris in having pendent deep yellow rotate flowers, bracts membranaceous, glabrous, costate. leaves succulent, densely white lepidote, black spotted with serrate-dentate margin and acutely mucronated top; very densely pulvinate to 30 cm across. inflorescence: branches caulescent, up 25 cm long, densely branched toward apex; leaves* imbricately distichous, succulent, acutely mucronate, up 15 (25) mm long, recurvate to flexuose, angulate-subulate, rigid, densely whitish lepidote; peduncle short, hidden among leaves, to 10 (rarely to 25) mm long, leafless, very thin, glabrous, more or less angulate, strictly pendent. flowers single, pendent, pseudoterminal; bract single, spathaceous, membranous, glabrous, ovate, prominently veined, acute, to 8 mm long; sepals ca 10 mm long, coriaceous, glabrous, subelliptic, sharp, more or less connate, prominently veined; corolla tubiform, ca 15 mm long, petals longer than sepals, lingulate-obovate, rotate. stamens included, style much shorter. fruits cylindric ca 10 mm long, exocarpical valves succulent, yellowish, endocarpium suffused purple; seeds oblong, brownish, tiny.Edited from : Halda 2005. New descriptions and combinations in Tillandsia L. .