plant stemless, non-stoloniferous, flowering 40 cm high. leaves many, densely rosulate, 30–35 cm long; sheath ovate, not constricted but merging with the blade, greenish, minutely punctate-lepidote throughout; blade ligulate, broadly rounded and apiculate, 20 cm long, 4 cm wide, pale green and obscurely punctate on both sides. inflorescence: peduncle erect or slightly curved, equaling or slightly shorter than the leaves; peduncle bracts ovate-apiculate, slightly exceeding the internodes, 20 mm long, 15 mm wide, glabrous, green; fertile part simple, distichous-flowered, oblong, rounded at apex, 13 cm long, 5 cm wide, about 15-flowered; floral bracts divergent and lax at base, imbricate above, lance-ovate, incurved and sharply carinate toward apex, 35 mm long, 20 mm wide, equaling or slightly exceeding the sepals, glabrous, reddish-flavous with green apex. flowers short-pedicellate, erect before anthesis, then slightly secund; sepals lanceolate, 30 mm long, 10 mm wide, sharply carinate, glabrous, hyaline, pale flavous; petals linear, obtuse, 45 mm long, 7 mm wide, hyaline, pale flavous, bearing 2 linear, acute, highly adnate scales. stamens and pistil exserted.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). in Flora Neotropica.