plant flowering slightly over 4 dm high. leaves numerous, 2–3 dm long, densely ferruginous-lepidote throughout; sheath suborbicular, more than half as long as the blades; blade narrowly triangular, 28 mm broad at base, uncinnate-recurved at apex. inflorescence: peduncle erect, rather stout; peduncle bracts erect, broadly elliptic with decurrent auricles, acute, 25 mm long, distinctly shorter than the internodes, coriaceous; fertile part simple, laxly 6–8-flowered, ca 13 cm long; rachis stout, flexuous; internodes straight, angled; floral bracts erect or secund with the flowers, suborbicular, obtuse, ecarinate, 23 mm long, about equaling the internodes, much exceeded by the sepals, thick, coriaceous. flowers suberect to spreading, strongly secund; pedicel stout, 8 mm long; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 27 mm long, very thick and coriaceous; petals and stamens unknown.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.