plant flowering 3–4 dm high. leaves to 15 in a fasciculate rosette, 18 cm long and 32 mm wide, broadly linear, acute, green, concolorous, appressed-pale-lepidote, subcoriaceous when dry. inflorescence: peduncle erect, much exceeding the leaves, very slender, terete, glabrous; peduncle bracts (known only from fragments) apparently shorter than the internodes, not at all foliaceous; fertile part simple, laxly 4–8-flowered, to 9 cm long; rachis angled when dry, slightly geniculate; floral bracts suberect to erect, not at all secund, broadly ovateelliptic, apiculate, 22 mm long, much exceeding the sepals, glabrous, even, coriaceous, rigid, not at all carinate. flowers: pedicel stout, 5 mm long; sepals broadly elliptic, obtuse, 15 mm long, 8 mm wide, even.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.