plant rosulate, stemless, epiphytic herbs, flowering 0.65–1 m tall, with solitary tank rosettes to 40 cm in diameter. leaves numerous; sheath brown to light brown, elliptic to oblong, 10–14 cm long, 5.5–6.5 cm wide, densely but inconspicuosly punctulate-lepidote on both surfaces; blade green, slightly glaucous, paler beneath, narrowly triangular, 25–50 cm long, 3–4 cm wide at the base, glabrous on the adaxial surface, sparsely punctulate-lepidote on the abaxial surface, acuminate, erect to ascending. inflorescence terminal, erect, simple, peduncle terete, 45–50 cm long, 5–7 mm in diameter, totally covered by the bract sheaths; basal peduncle bracts green to reddish, imbricate, vaginiform, only the basal ones foliaceous; sheath 3.5–4.5 cm long, blades 1–30 cm long; spikes compressed, oblong to lanceolate, 17–30 cm long, 6–7 cm wide; floral bracts dark green, glaucous, widely elliptic, 3.2–4 cm long, 2–2.4 cm wide, imbricate but the rachis visible after anthesis, smooth to nervate, ecarinate, glabrous outside, sparsely brown punctulate-lepidote inside, apex rounded. flowers distichous, ascendent, 13–22 per spike, actinomorphic, corolla helicoiform, subsessile; sepals free, green, oblanceolate, 3–3.4 cm long, ca 1 cm wide, nervate, ecarinate, glabrous outside, sparsely brown-punctulate lepidote inside, margin hyaline and erose, apex acute; petals light green, narrowly oblong, strap shaped, twisted, ca 9 cm long, ca 1 cm wide, rounded to acute at the apex. stamens subequal, longer than petals, filaments free, light green to white, filiform, 10–10.5 cm long, anthers green to green-whithish, linear, curved, 9–11 mm long. pistil: ovary green, ovoid, ca 14 mm long, ca 5 mm in diameter, style green, filiform, 10–11 cm long, stigma green. fruits green, fusiform, rostrate, 5.7–6 cm long, ca 9 mm in diameter; seeds dark brown, fusiform, ca 4 mm long, with a white coma 2.2–2.8 cm long.Edited from : Kromer et al. 2012. Taxonomic and Nomenclatural status of the Mexican species In the Tillandsia viridiflora complex (Bromeliaceae) .