leaves unknown. inflorescence: peduncle stout, strongly angled, glabrous; peduncle bracts erect, remote, broadly ovate, acute, subglabrous; fertile part laxly once-branched; primary bracts subspreading, broadly triangular, about 3 cm long, equaling or exceeding the axillary spikes, glabrous; spikes remote, sessile, subereet, slenderly ovoid, acute, to 25 mm long; floral bracts suborbicular, obtuse, minutely apiculate, about 10 mm long, equaling the sepals, strongly convex, rigid, glabrous. flowers strongly compressed; sepals triangular-ovate, acute, minutely mucronate, asymmetric, wing-carinate, 6 mm long, free. pistil: ovary 4 mm long; ovules borne near the top of the cell.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.