plant epiphytic or occasionally terrestrial, 25–45 cm tall when flowering, propagating by stolons 9–16 x 0.3–0.4 cm, thin, embracing the phorophyte, rosette base strongly ellipsoid. leaves 6–9, 22–65 x 0.6–1 cm, linear, subchartaceous, canaliculate, green adaxially and greenish wine-red abaxially, rarely concolorous wine-red, erect up to its half-length, then recurving, forming an inconspicuous tank, the tank 0.8–1 cm diam, accumulating a small amount of water; sheath 6–15 x 2.1–4.5 cm, narrowly elliptic, chartaceous, greenish abaxially, vinaceous adaxially, sparsely lepidote; blade 8.5–53 x 0.5–1 cm, linear, green, sparsely lepidote on both surfaces, canaliculate up to half-length, margins revolute, undulating in the lower portion, spinose, the prickles ca 0.5 mm long, inconspicuous; apex long-attenuate, recurved, apiculate, the apiculus 0.3 mm long, green. inflorescence: peduncle 26–30 cm long, ca 2 mm in diameter, slender, cylindrical, red when in fruit, partially concealed by the bracts, with sparsely arachnoid and white-lepidote indument; penduncle bracts 2.5–5.5 x 0.2–0.7 cm, linear-lanceolate, divergent, paleaceous, sparsely lepidote, the apex overlapping the base of the bract immediately above, erect, partially enfolding the peduncle, densely brown lepidote, apiculate, apiculus 0.1–0.3 mm; fertile part (excluding the peduncle) 11–14 cm long, paniculate, red when fruiting, lax, erect, with sparsely distributed arachnoid trichomes, white-lepidote; primary bracts 1.8–3.5 x 0.1–0.2 cm, linear-lanceolate, paleaceous with the upper portion pinkish, apiculate, lepidote, enfolding and adhering to the lateral peduncle; lateral peduncle 1–15 x 0.5–1 mm, discreetly complanate, reddish, ascending, rarely bearing arachnoid trichomes; floral bracts 2.5–4 x 0.8–1.8 mm, lanceolate, evidently trinervate, convex, symmetric, pale-rose, densely covered by arachnoid trichomes, the apex caudate, recurved, 0.3 mm long. flowers 5–7 mm long, sessile, erect, lax and polystichous in the branches, diurnal; sepals 1.1–1.3 x 1–1.2 mm, very broadly ovate, pale-yellow or whitish, fleshy, subsymmetric, the apiculum inconspicuous (0.1 mm), ca 0.5 mm connate, wing unilateral inconspicuous or absent, hyaline, with nearly symmetrically distributed papillose trichomes; petals ca 4 x 2 mm, free, obovate, white, lacking petal appendages, apex cucullate. stamens 3.5–4 mm long, reaching the apex of the petals; filament white, cylindrical, free; anther 2–2.5 mm, oblong, white, dorsifixed at the base or toward the center, the apex apiculate, apiculum ca 0.1 mm. pistil 4–4.5 mm long, reaching the apex of the petals, white; style ca 4 mm, longer than the stamen, reaching the same height as the petal, stigma 0.3 mm, spiral-conduplicate, white, the lobes with a crenulate margin; ovary 2–3 x ca 2 mm, ovate to depressed ovate, dark purple to black or bluish, the trichomes papillose and symmetrically distributed; ovules 1.5–2 mm, elliptic, white, apiculate; berry 3–5 mm diam, spherical, turgid, purple with pale-yellow persistent calyx, blackish when ripe, the pulp gelatinous hyaline. fruits: seeds 1–1.2 x 0.2–0.3 mm, narrowly elliptic to weakly falciform and discreetly recurved, brown, distally hyaline, testa cells hexagonal, isodiametric, wide walled, wider around the central part, bright;.Edited from : Pontes et al. 2019. (protologue) A New Species of Araeococcus (Bromeliaceae) from Bahia, Brazil and a Comparative Morphological and Anatomical Analysis .