plant epiphytic, flowering ca 60 cm high. leaves 18–25 in number, rosulate, suberect-arcuate, forming a narrow funnelform rosette at base; sheath elliptic, 9 x 5.5 cm, very inconspicuously lepidote on both sides, pale in color; blade sublinear, 20–30 x 2.5–3 cm, slightly narrowed at base, apex acute and apiculate, green on both sides, glabrescent. inflorescence: peduncle 20–35 cm long, 3–4 mm in diameter, rigid, erect, green, glabrous; peduncle bracts lanceolate, acute and apiculate, enfolding the peduncle, 30–33 x 12 mm, green or straw-colored, finely nerved, slightly shorter to slightly exceeding the internodes; fertile part simple or laxly once-branched, 25–35 cm long (when compound), suberect to erect; primary bracts resembling the peduncle bracts, red, distinctly shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches 3–5 in number, very laxly arranged, 18–22 cm long including the peduncle, suberect, spikes 10–15 x 2.5–3 cm; narrowly elliptic, apex acute, inflated, densely flowered at anthesis with 8–15 flowers, peduncle 8–12 cm long, ca 3–4 mm in diameter, bearing many sterile bracts, the basal ones resembling the peduncle bracts but shorter, and the upper resembling the floral bracts, rachis completely covered by the bracts; floral bracts elliptic, 35 x 25 mm, broadly acute, base truncate, slightly incurved at apex, corrugated when dry, ecarinate or the basal ones obtusely carinate near the apex, red, concave, inflated, densely imbricate, glabrescent, distinctly exceeding the sepals. flowers distichous, not secund, suberect, ca 5 mm long (including the stamens), pedicels stout, ca 5 mm long; sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 16 x 9 mm, light yellow, free, ecarinate; petals sublinear, apex narrowly obtuse to emarginate, 40 x 89 mm, bright yellow, bearing two suboblong, rounded, 6–7-mm-long appendages at base. stamens distinctly exserted; anther linear, 5–6 mm long, base and apex obtuse, fixed slightly above the base. pistil: style slightly surpassed to equaling the anthers; stigma convolute-bladed, yellow.Edited from : Leme 1995c. (protologue) Two New Vriesea Species from Bahia, Brazil .