plant stemless. leaves to 45 cm long, equaling the inflorescence, densely and minutely lepidote beneath, green; sheath ovate, inconspicuous; blade ligulate, broadly acute and apiculate, flat, 3 cm wide. inflorescence: peduncle erect, 3 mm in diameter; peduncle bracts imbricate and closely enfolding the peduncle, elliptic, acute, membranaceous, finely nerved, minutely lepidote toward the apex; fertile part subdensely once-branched, 20 cm long; primary bracts ovate, 3 cm long; spikes suberect, short-stipitate with lor 2 sterile bracts at base, lanceoblong, acute, strongly complanate, 7 cm long, 15 mm wide, densely 12-flowered; rachis flexuous, excavated; floral bracts more or less imbricate but narrow and not at all concealing the rachis, equaling the sepals, lance-oblong, acute, strongly carinate, thin, nerved, obscurely lepidote toward the apex. flowers short-pedicellate; sepals free, lance-oblong, acute, 15 mm long, carinate, obscurely lepidote; petals 23 mm long, yellowish rose, bearing 2 scales at base. stamens included.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.