; 0 herbs rupicolous or terrestrial, middle to large size, propagating by short side shoots; 1 stem short, l.l–3.0 x 2.5–3.5 cm. leaves numerous, patent or slightly arched, suberect when young, 9–26 cm long; sheath greenish-yellow, triangular, widened at base, 0.6 –3 x 1.1–3.2 cm, glabrous to lepidote on both sides on the top half of the abaxial face, margins spinescent, spines larger towards the tip, 0.2-l mm long; blade coriaceous, flat, red to red-purplish in the direction of the tip, linear-triangular to lanceolate, 8–24 x 0.8–2 cm, adaxial face white lanuginous at base, abaxial face grey, margins spinescent, antrorse spines 0.4 –1.2 ( –2) mm long, tip mucronulate. inflorescence sessile, multifloral, compound, branched at the peripheral part, branches with one or two flowers, surrounded by an external halo white lanuginous at the base of the leaves; involucral bracts foliaceous, the largest and most external similar to the leaves at flowering the innermost totally green with the tip densely lepidote, deltoid and lanceolate 1.7–3.8 x 1.6–1.7 cm, margins spinescent, tip mucronulate; see drawing; floral bracts, subcoriaceous, green, asymmetrical laterally, triangular, ca 1.5 x 1 cm, lepidote, margins spinescent, mucronulate tip. flowers: sepals green, asymmetric, carinate, narrowly triangular, 1.2–1.4 x 0.4–0.5 cm, with scales in parts, apical and basal, entire margins, tip mucronulate; petals white, linear-spatulate, ca 1.8 x 0.4 cm, entire margins, tip obtuse, simple trichomes at base; petals* appendages saciform, lacerated, approx; 6 mm from the base of petal, calluses present with the appendages; epigynous tube ca 2 mm long. stamens of the first whorl adnate to the petals, portion free from the filaments ca 3 mm long, the second whorl free from the filaments, opposite to the sepals, ca 9 mm long, anthers ca 4 mm long. pistil: ovary trigonous, style ca 1.3 cm long, numerous ovules. fruits and seeds not seen;.Translated by Butcher from: Louzada 2008. Taxonomia e citogenética das espécies de inflorescência séssil do gênero Beer (Bromeliaceae) .