plant flowering up to 70 cm high. leaves in a dense rosette, erect, to 20 cm long; sheath large, elliptic; blade lance-triangular , acuminate, 35–45 mm wide at the base, argenteo-lepidote, with purple spots. inflorescence: peduncle slender, erect, green with dark red spots; peduncle bracts erect, elliptic green with argentous indument, the lowest with narrow blades equalling the internodes, the upper apiculate, much shorter than the internodes; fertile part simple, lax, 8–15 cm long, up to 10-flowered; rachis flexuous, slender, dark red; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, 8–12 mm long, much exceeded by the sepals, sparsely lepidote. flowers secund before and after anthesis, nocturnal; pedicel short; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 18 mm long, green with dark red margins, sparsely lepidote; petals 25 mm long, cream. stamens & pistil included.Edited from : J. Brom. Soc. 33: 195-198.. (1983)