; 0 flowering shoot decurved, 1 m long. leaves 7 dm long, densely punctulate-lepidote throughout; sheath elliptic-oblong, 25 cm long, pale brown; blade ligulate, 12 cm wide, laxly serrate with dark spreading teeth 2 mm long. inflorescence: peduncle stout; peduncle bracts erect, densely imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate to a dark indurate apex, membranaceous; fertile part once-branched, slenderly pyramidal, 4 dm long, finely white-lepidote; primary bracts like the peduncle-bracts, exceeding the lower spikes; peduncle spreading, slender, complanate, to 5 cm long; spikes subcylindric to ellipsoid, 35 mm long, 10 mm in diameter; floral bracts broadly ovate with a mucro 2 mm long, nerved at least near the margin, yellow with a dark castaneous median spot, slightly exceeded by the sepals after anthesis, the lower broadly acute, the upper rounded. flowers: sepals 5 mm long exclusive of the 1 mm mucro; petals appendaged. pistil: ovary subglobose; placentae subapical; ovules obtuse.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1979. (protologue) Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.