leaves about 20 in a short rosette, lorate from an ovate base, 2 ft; long, 2–3 in; broad at the middle, suberect, plain green on the face, not mottled, obscurely fasciated with white on the back, deltoid-cuspidate at the tip, the marginal teeth minute, deltoid. inflorescence: peduncle erect, a foot long; bract-leaves greenish, adpressed, imbricated. flowers in a central globose capitulum 2–3 in; diam., surrounded and overtopped by the ovate acute green squarrose serrated bract-leaves, which are 3–4 in; long; flowers* much shorter than the bracts; petals green, shortly protruded.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .