plant epiphytic, flowering 35–50 cm high. leaves ca 20 in number, densely rosulate, forming a narrow funnelform rosette; sheath elliptic, 5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 cm, densely and inconspicuously pale brown lepidote on both sides, thin in texture, green to purplish-red; blade narrowly lanceolate, 11–20 × 1.5–1.8 cm, not narrowed at the base, apex acuminate, green to reddish-purple, thin in texture, sparsely and inconspicously white lepidote mainly abaxially to glabrous. inflorescence: peduncle slender, 18–25 cm long, 0.2–0.4 cm in diameter, erect, glabrous, green; peduncle bracts the basal ones foliaceous, the upper ones subfoliaceous, narroewly lanceolate, acuminate, 6–10 × 0.6–0.8 cm, erect except for the suberect distal portion, enfolding at the base the peduncle, distinctly exceeding to equaling the internodes, green o reddish-purple, glabrescent; fertile part inconspicuously once-branched, slender, 13–21 cm long (up to 80 cm long and with about 20 branches when cultivated), erect; primary bracts narrowly lineolate, acuminate-caudate, 3.5–8 × 0.6–0.8 mm, green, glabrous, erect except for the recurved distal end, exceeding the branches; branches ca 5 in number (including the terminal one), the lateral ones 1.5–5 cm long, erect, sparsely flowered before and at anthesis, bearing to 4–5 flowers; rachis slender, flexuous, green, glabrous, internodes 5–8 × 1–1.5 mm; stipe 5–10 × 1.5–2 mm, green, glabrous, bearing ca 1 sterile bract similar to the floral bracts; floral bracts triangular, 8–10 × 5–5.5 mm, apex acute, green, inconspicuously lepidote to glabrous, distinctly shorter than the sepals, divergent to slightly secund with the flowers, carinate, membranaceous, thinly nerved. flowers diurnal, strongly fragrant, divergent to slightly secund, laxly arranged, ca 30 mm long with extended petals, pedicels inconspicuous, ca 3 mm long, ca 4 mm in diameter at the distal end, green, glabrous; sepals lanceolate, subsymmetrical, apex acuminate, 15–15.5 × 4.5–5 mm, glabrous, free, ecarinate, green, thin in texture toward the apex and margins, thicker at the base; petals spathulate, apex acute and slightly cucullate, 25–27 × 6.5–7 mm, white, connate at the base for 5–7 mm, the distal half spreading to reflexed at anthesis, bearing at the base 2 narrowly lanceolate, long acuminate or irregularly bifid, ca 10 × 1 mm appendages adnate to the petals tube and free above it. stamens shorter than the petals but exposed by the reflexed petals, radially disposed at anthesis; filament terete, white, adnate to the petals tube and free above it; anther linear, base distinctly bilobed, apex bifid, ca 4 mm long, fixed near the base, the connective area exposed and not covered by the margins of the pollen sacs. pistil slightly exceeding the anthers; stigma conduplicate-patent, densely papillose, white, blades ca 3 mm long; ovules long caudate. fruits subcylindric, slender, beacked, 30–38 mm long.Edited from : Leme. Unpublished document .