plant propagating by elongate, stout, slightly pendant, initially erect stolons, larger than 10 cm, 3–3.5 cm wide; stolons flattened, covered by strongly distichous sheaths. leaves: sheath with foliar lamina, folded, 3 cm wide, 3–3.5 cm long, apiculate and forming a long mucro, 1–1.3 cm long, enfolding the stolons, margins with green and soft spines, not pungent, evenly distributed along the margins; rosettes medium size, 40–50 cm diameter, funnel shaped, 30–40 leaves. leaves green, sometimes red, the inner ones dark pink at anthesis; sheath* forming a multitank around the inflorescence, inflated, large, suborbicular, green, sometimes with yellowish area, bright, 8 cm long, 6 cm wide; blade suddenly spreading forming almost a 90° angle with the vertical axis of the rosette, ligulate, rounded or broadly acute and mucronate, laxly serrate with pungent, brown spines, 1–2 mm long. inflorescence simple, few-flowered; primary bracts 5–6 cm long; 2–2.5 cm wide, entire, acute and forming a mucro; floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the ovaries, membranous, entire, laxly punctulate lepidote. flowers obscurely pedicellate for 4.5 mm; sepals asymmetric, sublanceolate, acuminate, 21 mm long, connate for 3 mm, green; petals ca 1 cm long, white, blades spreading, ovate, acuminate; petals* scales apically with finger-like structures or margins, shorter than the filaments. pistil: stigma conduplicate-spiral with stigmatic lines along the distal portion of each lobe; ovary very slenderly clavate, 20 mm long.Edited from : Ramirez 1991. Systematic Revision of Neoregelia subgenus Hylaeaicum (Bromeliaceae) .