plant stoloniferous; stolons slender, up to 23 cm long, 4–5 mm diameter, covered with polystichous, spineless, brownish sheaths, 3–3.5 cm long, 1–1.3 cm wide; rosettes funnel shape, 20 cm diameter, 15–22 cm high, with 5–20 leaves; foliar sheaths erect, 5–8 cm long, 6–8 cm long, cochleariform, oblong-ovoid, appressed-lepidote, brown-violet in the upper third, margins very thin and soft; foliar blade erect-patent, ligulate, basally attenuate, 7–15 cm long, 3–4 cm wide, or as long as the sheaths, apically recurved, pungent, laxly serrate, spines antrorse, soft, green, 3 mm long, 5–8 rnm apart. inflorescence profound in the center of the rosette, simple, pauciflororus; peduncle 2–3 cm long, terete, 5 mm diameter, white; peduncle bracts basally, oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, 2 cm wide, recurvate, margins serrate; inflorescence* 4 cm long, 4–8 mm diameter, capitate. flowers subsessile, up to 35 mm long; floral bracts similar to the peduncle bracts, membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate, up to 25 cm long, smaller than sepals, 7 mm late, ecarinate, apice obtuse, margins entire; sepals carinate, oblong-acuminate, connate by 3 mm, 18–20 mm long, 4 mm wider white, apically lepidote; petals white, free, narrow ligulate, up to 1 cm long, when flattened ovate oblong-acuminate, up to 7 mm wide, 25 mm long. stamens and style included; stamens* forming scales in the area of connation with the petals. pistil: style as long as the anthers; stigma with three stigmatic lobes, conduplicate-spiral, margins short- papillate; ovary 15–18 mm long, curved, trigonous; ovules few, apically obtuse. fruits not seen.Edited from : Ramirez 1991. Systematic Revision of Neoregelia subgenus Hylaeaicum (Bromeliaceae) .