plant flowering over 1.5 m high, propagating by suckers. leaves few (ca; 10), undulate, dark green, to 30 cm long, 4 cm wide, rosulate; sheath small, ovate; blade constricted at the base, linear lanceolate, attenuate, serrate near the base, abaxially covered with a membrane of coalesced pale scales, adaxially densely white-lepidote near the base, glabrous toward the apex. inflorescence: peduncle rather stout, glabrous; peduncle bracts imbricate, lanceolate, attenuate, entire, sparsely lepidote, the lowest exceeding the internodes, the upper remote; fertile part laxly twice-branched to 50 cm long; primary bracts like the peduncle bracts but much smaller, shorter than to about equalling the sterile bases of the branches; branches to 12 cm long, curved ascending; floral bracts ovate, 1–1.5 mm long. flowers: pedicel slender, 1.5–2 mm long. flowers nutant-secund; sepals ovate, obtuse, 3 mm long; light green spotted red- apically; petals cream and rose, ca 7 mm long, coiling-recurved at anthesis. stamens slightly exserted;anthers ca 1 mm long.Edited from : Luther 1981c. (protologue) Miscellaneous New Taxa of Bromeliaceae (I) .