plant stoloniferous; stolons flattened, 11 mm wide. leaves ca 15 in a funnel form rosette, to 80 cm long, subdensely appressed-lepidote with brown-centered scales, the inner ones pink towards the base; sheath suborbicular, ca 8 cm long, entire except near the base; blade linear, attenuate, 15 mm wide, flat, laxly serrate with black antrorse spines 1.5 mm long. inflorescence sunken in the center of the rosette, compound, corymbose, many-flowered, 3 cm diameter; primary bracts elliptic, apiculate, exceeded by the sepals; floral bracts oblong, broadly acute, thin and whitish except for the slightly excurrent green midrib, 25 mm long, sparsely lepidote. flowers: sepals free, strongly asymmetric, 14 mm long including the 2 mm blunt mucro, pale green, sparsely lepidote, the adaxial ones carinate with the keels decurrent on the ovary; petals free, naked, white, the blades acuminate; ovary,subcylindric, merging with the short indistinct pedicel.Edited from : Ramirez 1991. Systematic Revision of Neoregelia subgenus Hylaeaicum (Bromeliaceae) .