leaves unknown. inflorescence: peduncle sheathed with lanceolate red bract-leaves with a few small hooked teeth. flowers in a dense once-branched panicle six to eight inches long, three to four inches broad, the lower branches spreading, about two inches long, bearing ten to twelve erecto-patent sessile flowers and subtended by ten llanceolate bract-leaves longer than themselves; floral bracts coriaceous, navicular, lanceolate-deltoid, a quarter of an inch long, with a distinct mucro; calyx including ovary half an inch long; sepals lanceolate, as long as the ovary, distinctly mucronate; petals twice as long as the sepals.Edited from : Baker 1879b. (protologue) A Synopsis of the Genus Aechmea, R. & P. .