plant flowering scarcely 50 cm high. leaves many in a crateriform rosette, ca 50 cm long, thin; sheath narrowly ovate, 8 cm long, 4 cm wide, purple, inconspicuously lepidote; blade linear, long-acuminate, 2 cm wide, purple beneath, green above. inflorescence: peduncle erect, green, 25 cm long, 4 mm thick, the internodes 25 mm long; peduncle bracts erect, imbricate, oblong, acuminate, 35 mm long, 10 mm wide, glabrous; fertile part simple, laxly 6-flowered, 12 cm long, 5 cm wide; axis geniculate, purplish; internodes 15–20 mm long; floral bracts ovate, apiculate, 20–30 mm long, 15 mm wide, ecarinate, green, glabrous. flowers nocturnal, 6 cm long; sepals exserted, lanceolate, acute, 30 mm long, 10 mm wide, obscurely carinate, greenish yellow, glabrous; petals erect, linear, obtuse, 53 mm long, 9 mm wide, pale yellow, bearing 2 entire 4 mm long scales at base. stamens slightly exserted, 55 mm long, series i free, series ii adnate for 5 mm; anther 5 mm long.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.