plant stemless, flowering to 50 cm or often higher. leaves utriculate-rosulate; sheath broadly ovate, 7 cm long, 6 cm wide, sublilac; blade narrowly triangular, caudate, 40 cm long, 6 cm wide, nearly flat but involute toward apex, sparsely white-lepidote. inflorescence: peduncle erect, 30 cm long, stout, roseate; peduncle bracts imbricate, semi-amplexicaul, the blades foliaceous, spreading 30–35 cm long, 5 cm wide, roseate, sparsely lepidote; fertile part erect, 4–5-branched; primary bracts like the upper peduncle-bracts, reflexed, their sheaths shorter than the axillary spikes, short-stipitate, subquadrilateral, 12 cm long, 4 cm wide, 16–20 flowered; floral bracts laxly imbricate, orbicular, mucronate, 35 mm long, inflated, carinate or ecarinate, inflated, not exposing the axis, yellow-green, sparsely leipdote at apex. flowers: sepals 25 mm long, 7 mm wide, subcarinate, subchartaceous, glabrous, yellow-green; petals tubular-erect, 55 mm long, yellow-green. stamens and style long-exserted.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.