plant flowering several metres high. leaves very long acute, not at all coloured, 1 m long, to 0,14 m lata. inflorescence: peduncle very thick, sheaths leaflike, internodes long exceeding; fertile part several metres long, floral branches 12–15 not at all secund, not geniculate; floral bracts suborbicular, broad rounded, not at all incurved nor inflated, obtuse carinate, to 28 mm long et 35 mm wide, shorter than the sepals. flowers suberect to spreading, to 95 mm long, very fragrant; sepals slightly acute, to 35 mm long, not at all carinate; petals from milky to yellowish, barred, to 33 mm longer than the sepals, with one ligule in 2 parts; brazil state of rio de janeiro, near copacobana ( glaziou n; 15468).Edited from : Mez 1896. (protologue) Bromeliaceae in De Candolle, C. (ed.). Monographiae Phanerogamarum.