plant flowering over 2 meters (6 feet) high. leaves nearly 1 meter long, entire; sheath broadly ovate, 5 cm; long, dark brown toward base; blade very narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, dull, glaucous-green, soon glabrous above, white-lepidote between the nerves beneath. inflorescence: peduncle central, slender; peduncle bracts subfoliaceous, mostly spreading; fertile part diffuse, much branched; axes very slender; floral bracts triangular, about equaling the slender 2 mm; long pedicels. flowers white; sepals ovate, obtuse, 1 mm; long; petals narrowly ovate, obtuse, 3 mm; long, exceeding the stamens; pistillate flowers unknown;.Edited from : Bromel. Soc. Bull. 18: 4, fig.. (1968)