Viridantha pachycaulis Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr.    

plant saxicolous, flowering 10–15 cm tall, 8–12 cm in diameter; rosettes shortly caulescent, spherical in outline, solitary or forming clumps of two or three rosettes. leaves numerous, longer than the inflorescence; sheath pale brown on both surfaces, oblong, 15–20 mm long, 7–8 mm wide, glabrous at the base on both surfaces; blade densely grey lepidote, narrowly triangular to linear, 50–70 mm long, 3.5–4.5 mm wide, recurved, of attenuate. inflorescence subsessile, nested in the center of the rosette, ones-branched, with 2–5 spikes; peduncle inconspicuous, 5–10 mm long, 3–4 mm in diameter; peduncle bracts similar to the leaves, longer than the inflorescence but reducing in size distally, densely grey lepidote; spikes green to reddish-rose at the apex, erect and appressed to the peduncle, dorsiventrally flattened, elliptic, 30–40 mm long, 10–15 mm wide, 2–4 flowered; floral bracts reddish-rose at the apex, yellowish green towards the base, ovate when extended, 20–25 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate, nerved, carinate, glabrous adaxially, lepidote abaxially. flowers distichous, erect and appressed to the rachis; sepals reddishrose at the apex, yellowish-green towards the base, lanceolate, 15–20 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, apex acuminate, the two adaxial ones carinate, glabrous adaxially, scattered lepidote abaxially; petals white in its basal half, to dark green in its apical half, narrowly oblong, 20–25 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, apex rounded to obtuse. stamens all equal; filament white, filiform, 15–17 mm long; anther pale green, 3–4 mm long. pistil: ovary green, ovoid to ellipsoid, 4–5 mm long, 2.5–3.5 mm in diameter; style white, 7–11 mm long; stigma branches green. fruits 25–30 mm long, 5–8 mm in diameter; seeds fusiform, 2–3.5 mm long; coma 1.5–2 cm long.

Edited from : Hernandez et al. 2021. (protologue) Two new species of Viridantha (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae) .