plant stemless, branching from the base and forming dense clumps, flowering up to 25 cm high; single rosette with numerous leaves, up to 15 cm high and 20 cm in diameter. leaves: sheath forming an onion-like bulb, somewhat succulent, 2.5 cm wide, 1 cm high, white above, casianeous-brown beneath; blade 13 to 25 cm long, very narrow-triangular, only 4 to 6 mm wide, attenuate, canaliculate at the base with small, light brown teeth at the margin, beneath densely, above less white-lepidote. inflorescence: peduncle more or less 10 cm long, slender, erect, greenish at the base, brownish-rose above, white floccose; basal peduncle bracts subfoliate, the upper ones without blades, only acute, up to 2 cm long, rose-greenish, densely white-floccose; floral bracts ovate-triangular, acute; the basal ones up to 18 mm long, exceeding the pedicels, but shorter than the sepals. flowers 20 mm long, spreading to hanging, with a 7 to 8 cm long pedicel; sepals 1 cm long, 5 mm wide, acute, ecarinate, greenish with a hyaline margin, white-floccose; petals 15 mm long, 7 mm wide, eligulate, emerald-green, white at the base; with rounded, nearly erect tips; after anthesis dark wine-red and merely twisted. stamens & style both included, about 10 mm long. pistil: style shorter than the stamens; ovary epigynous, 5 mm long, 3 mm thick; locality bolivia, between tarija and sta; anna, 2700 m, rocky and grassy slopes.Edited from : Rauh 1982b. Puya hromradnikii Rauh nov. spec. A new dwarf Puya from Brazil. .