plant very slender in all parts; peduncle bracts longer or shorter than the upper internodes. inflorescence with branches spreading to recurving, the rachis often twisted so that the flowers are secund, but the pedicels remaining straight; floral bracts nerved, membranaceous, much shorter than the sepals.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.