leaves: blade 3–5 cm wide, obtuse and apiculate (?), wholly green; racemes mostly not over 25 cm long, to 6 cm wide, lanceolate, broadly obtuse; floral bracts about 6 times as long as the internodes.Edited from : Gouda 1987. Bromeliaceae (subfamily Tillandsioideae) in Görts-van Rijn, A.R.A. (ed.) Flora of the Guiana\'s Series A: Phanerogams.