; 0 description from renate's latest article in die brom 1 6–9; 1 2000 plant stemless, an erect, sub- bulbose, green rosette with grey trichomes, usually in dense masses leaves rarely 5 - 14 cm long, covered with coarse cinereous spreading scales. leaves: sheath elliptic, to 2 - 3,5 cm long, 1 - 1,5 cm wide, about 1/3 as long as the blade or shorter; blade 6 - 11 cm long, 2 –5 mm wide, narrowly triangular with a filiform tip, subulate-attenuate, stout, the outer ones green, the inner deep red when flowering. inflorescence: peduncle short, 1 - 3 cm long; fertile part with a distinct stem, simple, appearing to be a simple spike with polystichous flowers with 3 - 8 flowers, but actually a reduced panicle with the axes aborted and the spikes reduced to a single flower each; in rare conditions it becomes a compound inflorescence, laxly elongate; primary bracts lanceolate, acuminate, always exceeding the floral bracts and the sepals, membranaceous, lepidote toward apex; floral bracts like the primary bracts much surpassing the sepals, (to twice as long) 3 - 3.5 cm long to 4 - 6 mm wide, lanceolate acuminate, inside glabrous, outside pink, weak mostly punctulate lepidote. flowers sessile, erect; sepals lanceolate, acute, 14 - 18 mm long, 2,5 - 3 mm wide, the adaxial ones carinate, nearly free or the adaxial ones to 3 mm connate, membranaceous, petals erect, forming a tube, 3,5 - 3,9 cm long, the claw linear, the blade broadly elliptic, the tips slightly recurved, blue-violet getting white towards base. stamens and pistil long-exserted, filaments in two sets of unequal length, 4 - 4,5 cm long 0,8 mm wide, broadened near apex, violet, getting thin and white towards base, anthers 3 - 3,15 cm long, versatile fixed 1/3 from base. pistil: style 4 cm long, thin; white, stigma 2 x 2 mm, lobes erect, papillose. fruits subcylindric, acute, 3 cm long.Edited from : Die Bromelie. .