plant with a tubular or utriculate, 15–50 cm tall rosette. leaves 11–47 cm long, the outer ones often much reduced and sheath-like; sheath suborbicular to oblong, densely imbricate, 6–24 cm long, very densely brown-appressed-lepidote; blade erect, ligulate or narrowly sub¬triangular, often undulate near the base, rounded or obtuse, but sometimes attenuate. inflorescence with the branches often turning to one side (secund); peduncle sparsely lepidote or floccose; axis often curved; rachs persistently lepidote. flowers: sepals 4.5–5 mm long, subdensely lepidote throughout.Edited from : Gouda 1987. Bromeliaceae (subfamily Tillandsioideae) in Görts-van Rijn, A.R.A. (ed.) Flora of the Guiana\'s Series A: Phanerogams.