; 0 clustering epiphyte. leaves spreading, light green with purple stripes, pale appressed lepidote, especially abaxially; sheath elliptic, castaneous abaxially, pale adaxially; blade to 95 cm long, 10–18 mm wide, long attenuate; peduncle bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, 12–50 cm long, 4–8 mm wide, attenuate. inflorescence densely digitate with 6 spikes; primary bracts ovate, acuminate, dark castaneous; spikes to 6 cm long, each ca 12- flowered; floral bracts to 2 cm long, acute to rounded, exceeding the sepals, dark castaneous. flowers: sepals to 16 mm long, connate 1–3 mm, the adaxial pair carinate; petals white.Edited from : Luther 1989a. (protologue) Miscellaneous new taxa of Bromeliaceae (VI) .