plant acaulis, to 0,4 m high. leaves to 0,4 m long, above sheath to 28 mm wide, then gradually narrowing to the tip, subglabrous, tip almost pungent. inflorescence: peduncle under twice as short as the leaves, slender, brownish furfuraceous lepidote, lax bracts with sheaths inflated-concave, from ovate-elliptic, all producing, narrow acuminate blades, strictly ercct, much exceeding the internodes; fertile part simple, submultiflowered, equalling the leaves, becoming lax at the base and denser toward the top, top section sterile, to 0,16 m long and 22 mm diam; floral bracts coriaceous, not at all farinose, the lower ones at least exceeding the petals, when dry concolorous not at all vittate, lower ones clearly remote barely imbricate, middle ones to 23 mm long. flowers sessile, to 27 mm long, glabrous; sepals a little over ⅓ connate, rigid, chestnut brown towards the base, 16 mm long, shiny, a little asymmetric elliptic narrow rounded; petals 26 mm long, coalesced into a tall tube, lobes narrow elliptic, rounded, stamens exceeding to 5 mm; ecuador near babahoyo (sodiro n; 171/25).Edited from : Mez 1935. (protologue) Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.