plant propagating by stolons; stolons stout, covered by polystichous, spiny sheaths; rosettes funnel shape, flat, 50–70 cm diameter. leaves 5–15 in a rosette, to 70 cm long; sheath elliptic, lepidote, yellow-brown, serrate towards the apex, 6–7 cm long; 4–5 cm wide, dark brown, gray scaled; blade linear, attenuate, 35–40 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, coriaceous, dark green, laxly or sublaxly serrate with curved, brown spines 2 mm long. inflorescence: peduncle short, not exceeding the rosette, 2–3 cm long, 5–6 mm thick; inner leaves dark red, the color varies depending where the plant is growing on; fertile part compound with a few very short branches, corymbose, sunken in the center of the rosette, 5–6 cm diameter; floral bracts narrowly elliptic, acute, mucronate, 2–3 cm long, 9–14 mm wide, carinate toward the apex, barely exceeded by the sepals, only at the tip few scales, green. flowers subsessile, 3–4 cm long; sepals free, lance-elliptic, acute, 12 mm long, carinate, pale green, glabrous; petals free, oblongoid, apically attenuate and acuminate, 20 mm long, 3 mm wide, white; petals* scales apically with short finger-like margins, shorter than the stamens. stamens 1.6 cm long, fused with the petals for 9 mm of its length from the base, included. pistil: stigma simple-erect, with three lobes apically undulate ovary slightly 3-angled, 18 mm long, 4 mm diameter. fruits 3 cm long, apically pale blue; seeds 13–14.Edited from : Ramirez 1991. Systematic Revision of Neoregelia subgenus Hylaeaicum (Bromeliaceae) .