plant flowering to 84 cm high. leaves many in a funnelform rosette, to 22 cm long, covered throughout with minute, flat, brown-centered scales; sheath elliptic, ca 4 cm long, dark brown; blade narrowly triangular, ca 12 mm wide at base, the outer much reduced. inflorescence: peduncle erect, slender, much exceeding the leaves; peduncle bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic, apiculate; fertile part erect, simple, lax, many-flowered, sparsely pale-lepidote; rachis very slender, flexuous; floral bracts spreading, to 30 mm long, exceeding the internodes and the sepals, ovate, convex and rolled around the sepals, thin-coriaceous, nerved. flowers short-pedicellate; sepals free, 20 mm long, elliptic, broadly acute; petals blades suborbicular, spreading 20 mm long, white with yellow eye. stamens and pistil deeply included.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.