inflorescence: peduncle long, erect or bent over, to 20 cm long, exceeding the rosette , white, glabrous; fertile part cylindrical, to 15 cm long and 3 cm thick, with white, glabrous rachis; floral bracts dense, imbricate, longish-oval, 2,5–3 cm long, 2 cm wide; the basal ones with short, brownish, scaled blade, the upper ones only short tipped, pale carmine red; all floral bracts in the upper third pure white, sepals and petals always pure white.Translated by Butcher from: Rauh 1976a. (protologue) Bromelienstudien (Mitteilung 5). I. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern .