plant rupicolous, flowering 43–47 cm tall, propagating by axillary shoots. leaves 26 to 28 in number, densely rosulate, subcoriaceous, forming a funnelform rosette; sheath elliptic, 4.5–5 x 3.5 cm, dark colored, densely brown lepidote and bearing white trichomes arranged in transversal cross-bands mainly abaxially; blade suboblong to sublinear, acuminate-caudate, suberect to strongly recurved toward the apex, canaliculate, 5–8 x 2–2.3 cm, greenish to dark purplish-wine, densely lepidote, bearing white trichomes irregularly arranged in crossbands on both sides, margins inconspicuously truncate, ca 0.5 mm thick. inflorescence: peduncle erect to suberect, ca 25 cm long, 2.5–3 mm in diameter, dark purplish-wine, glabrous; peduncle bracts erect, ovate, the basal ones acuminatecaudate, the upper ones obtuse and apiculate, dark purplish-wine, densely white lepidote with trichomes arranged in crossbands (basal ones) to glabrous ( upper ones), shorter than the internodes; fertile part simple, suberect, 10–15 cm long, distichously 8 to 10-flowered, rachis 1.5–2.5 mm in diameter, flexuous to geniculate, dark purplishwine, glabrous; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse-emarginate, 8–12 x 7–8 mm, glabrous, smooth or nearly so at the anthesis, ecarinate, slightly convex, thin in texture toward the apex and margins, dark castaneous-wine, truncate at the base, equaling 1/5 of sepals length, secund with the flowers. flowers ca 37 mm long with petals extended, anthesis nocturnal, slightly scented, laxly arranged and secundly erect at the anthesis, pedicels ca 5 mm long, ca 6 mm in diameter at the apex, ca 3 mm in diameter at the base, green to castaneous-wine; sepals oblong-elliptic, rounded, 16–17 x 9 mm, greenish-castaneous with wine margins, glabrous, lustrous, convex, ecarinate, coriaceous at the base and thin in texture toward the apex and margins; petals spatulate, apex obtuse-emarginate, 32–33 x 14–15 mm, pale yellowish-white, spreading at the anthesis and forming a campanulate corolla ca 25 mm in diameter, bearing at the base 2 lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, ca 7 x 2 mm appendages adnate to the petals for ca 4 mm. stamens 2 disposed at each side of the corolla and 2 disposed at the base of the corolla at the anthesis, shorter than the petals; filament not dilated, ca 1 mm in diameter, subterete; anther ca 7 mm long, dorsifixed near the base, base and apex obtuse, slightly recurved. pistil: stigma tubolaciniate, inconspicuously crenulate-papilose, green; ovules caudate. fruits unknown.Edited from : Leme 2012a. (protologue) Revision of the Lithophytic Vriesea Species from Minas Gerais (and vicinities), Brazil - Part V: Two tubolaciniate stigma-type new species .