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

plant saxicolous, flowering 6–8 cm tall, 7–8 cm in diameter; rosettes short caulescent, irregular in outline, forming clumps of many rosettes. leaves 13–16, shorter than or equal to the inflorescence; sheath yellow green, pale brown when dry on both surfaces, very widely ovate, 8–10 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, glabrous at the base and lepidote distally on both surfaces; blade densely grey lepidote, very narrowly triangular, 4–5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, attenuate, divaricate to ascending. inflorescence pedunculate, erect, simple; peduncle conspicuous, green, pale brown when dry, 1–2 cm long, 1–1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous; peduncle bracts similar to the leaves but reducing in size distally, shorter than the inflorescence, densely grey lepidote; spikes red rose, pale rose when dry, flattened, narrowly elliptic, 2.5–3 cm long, 8–10 mm wide, 2–4 flowered; floral bracts red rose at the apex, yellow green towards the base, pale rose when dry, ovate when extended, 1.5–2 cm long, 6–8 mm wide, apex acute to acuminate, slightly nerved, carinate at the apex, glabrous adaxially, lepidote abaxially. flowers distichous, erect and appressed to the rachis; sepals redrose at the apex, yellow green towards the base, narrowly ovate, 1.2–1.5 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, apex acuminate, the two adaxial ones carinate, free, glabrous adaxially, scatteredly lepidote abaxially; petals white in its basal half, dark green in its apical half, narrowly oblong, 2.5–2.8 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, apex rounded to obtuse. stamens all equal; filament white, filiform, 1.7–2 cm long; anther pale green, pale brown when dry, 3–4 mm long. pistil: ovary green, pale green when dry, ovoid to globose, 3–5 mm long, 3–4 mm in diameter; style white, pale green when dry, 1.5–2 cm long; stigma branches green. fruits unknown.

Edited from : Hernandez et al. 2023c. (protologue) Viridantha minuscula (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae), a new species from Guanajuato, Mexico .