leaves: blade - to 20 cm long, 1 cm wide leaf spines - denser and larger inner rosette leaves - shiny red and for that reason less colourful than the type; floral bracts - much shorter than the sepals. flowers: petals - to 20 mm long, platte almost erect, short tipped.Translated by Butcher from: Rauh 1985a. (protologue) Bromelienstudien (Mitteilung 16). I. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern .