plant habit variable from nearly stemless to long caulescent. leaves 18–25 cm long; sheath elliptic, 2–3 cm long, ferruginous-lepidote; blade acuminate, 2.5–3.5 cm wide, minutely punctate-lepidote, pale green or yellow-green tesselated dark green or reddish. inflorescence: peduncle erect, slender, mostly obscured by the leaves; peduncle bracts imbricate, ovate and acute; fertile part digitate or pinnate with 1–5 lateral branches (rarely simple); primary bracts like the peduncle bracts; spikes linear-lanceolate, acute with 3–9 sterile bracts at the base, strongly complanate; floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate with an acute, incurved apex, sharply carinate, slightly nerved, 26–28 mm long, nearly exceeding the flowers, bright yellow. flowers subsessile, 28–30 mm long; sepals lanceolate, free, adaxially carinate, nerved, 14–15 mm long; petals linear, obtuse, cucculate, 26–28 mm long, yellow. fruits 9 mm long.Edited from : Luther 1983. (protologue) Miscellaneous New Taxa of Bromeliaceae (III) .