leaves 4 dm long; blade 25 mm wide, narrowly triangular with long caudate apices; peduncle bracts all greatly exceeding the internodes, all with long caudate apices; primary bracts lanceolate, acute or short-acuminate, shorter than the axillary branches.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.