; 0 known only from parts of the pistillate plant, probably less than 1 m high. leaves 3 dm long; sheath suborbicular, 3 cm long, much thickened, glabrous; blade narrowly triangular, 2 cm wide, caudate-attenuate, densely serrulate with teeth 0.5 mm long, sparsely lepidote above, densely pale-appressed-lepidote beneath. inflorescence: peduncle unknown; fertile part very laxly twice-branched, glabrous; primary bracts triangular, acuminate, up to 13 mm long; branches very slender, up to 2 dm long, their sterile bases 3–5 cm long; racemes 3–10 cm long, very laxly flowered; floral bracts line ar-lanceolate, 2 mm long, much shorter than the pedicels, hyaline. flowers spreading, 3 mm long; pedicel very slender, 3–4 mm long; sepals ovate, obtuse, 1.4 mm long, 1-nerved, subhyaline; petals very broadly elliptic, obtuse, 2.3 mm long, whitish when dry. pistil: ovary ovoid, 1.5 mm long, superior, glabrous; style almost none.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.