leaves 26 cm long; blade 25–30 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, acute or very short acuminate; peduncle bracts equaling or slightly exceeding the internodes, the upper ones apiculate, the lower short-caudate; primary bracts broadly lanceolate, apiculate, much shorter than the axillary branches.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.