plant epiphytic, flowering ca 35 cm high leaves ligulate, membranaceous, ca 25 cm long, contracting a little above the sheath, forming a funnel shaped utriculum at the base. leaves: sheath elliptic, ca 8 cm long, 6 cm wide, both sides green and the smallest brown lepidote; blade sub-linear, ca 18 cm long, maximum width 3 cm, narrow-acuminate towards the tip, both sides green, glabrous. inflorescence: peduncle erect, green, shorter than the leaves, 17 cm long; peduncle bracts narrow ovate, tip rounded mucronate, green, longer than the internodes, totally covering the length of the peduncle; fertile part simple, very complanate, 13 cm long, 5 cm wide, elliptic, tip sub-acute, ca 15 flowered, with 2–3 sterile bracts at the base, rachis erect hidden by the bracts floral bracts spreading, broad-oval, apiculate, ca 50 mm long, 35 mm wide, very imbricate, dull red, strongly keeled with the keel slightly incurved, in no way secund, equaling the height of the corolla. flowers erect, 6 cm long, at anthesis a little secund, pedicels 3 mm long, sepals free, 20 mm long, 6 mm wide, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, yellow, blunt keeled; petals linear, tip rounded, 50 mm long, 7 mm wide, pale yellow, except for the green tip, at the base 2 ligules, ligules entire. stamens exserted, 55 mm long, style 50 mm long, exceeding the height of the anthers, stigma green, ovary 5 mm long, pyramidal.Edited from : Bradea. .