plant seems to be an epiphyte and acaulescent, the flowering plant stature is quite conspicuous. leaves many, obconical, adult leaves at least glabrous; sheath narrow, with transparent base, densely dull-brown lepidote, ca 9 cm long, 4 cm wide; blade linear, apex shortly pointed, leathery, pale green (towards the tip beautifully colored?). inflorescence of subelongate spikes, many flowered, compound, once-branched, paniculate, elongate, surpassing the leaves, ca 35 cm long, 8 cm in diameter, dense(?); peduncle stout, erect, smooth, glabrous, terete, shorter than the leaves, concealed by the bracts; peduncle bracts densely imbricate, erect, foliaceous but smaller, tip stiffly but not pungent, glabrous or nearly so, all exceeding the internodes; primary bracts strongly concave, broadly ovate, the lower ones with sharp triangle apex, enclosing and almost hiding the lowest axillary spikes; spikes with at the base the flowers loosely arranged, and divergent, more dense towards the apex, and suberect-erect, sub-lax, ellipsoid, nearly all sessile, 15-flowered, to 6 cm long; floral bracts elliptic, broadly rounded, often slightly emarginate, ca 9 mm long, 7 mm wide, conspicuously shorter than the sepals, coriaceous, abaxially strongly nerved. flowers 18 mm long, very short and stout pedicellate, almost sessile, glabrous; sepals 12 mm long, (when flattened) obovate-elliptic, subequally to 3 mm connate, broadly rounded, only slightly asymmetrical; petals bright yellow, 17 mm long, up to 7 mm from the tip connate into a subcylindrical tube, the blade narrowly rounded (not acute). stamens shorter than the petals; anther at the throat of the corolla, anthers apiculate. pistil: style distally divided into 3 equal short stigmas;.Translated by E.J.Gouda from: Mez 1905. (protologue) Additamenta monographica 1904 (suite) .