leaves robust, clearly recurved, glaucous, bracts pale red; differs from typical species by having smaller leaves, calyx short, 2/3 as long as the bract and flowering white.Translated by Butcher from: Wittmack 1889b. (protologue) Plantae Lehmannianae in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador etc. collectae, Bromeliaceae in Engler, A..