leaves lorate, one foot and a half long, three inches broad at the dilated base, two inches broad at the middle, obtuse with a cusp, armed with close ascending horny brown teeth a line long. inflorescence: peduncle one foot and a half to two feet long, furnished with many lanceolate adpressed bracts; panicle dense, oblong, once-branched, four inches long, about half as broad, the crowded erecto-patent distichous branches about an inch long; floral bracts a quarter of an inch long, round-navicular, with a distinct mucro. flowers: calyx with ovary under half an inch long; sepals lanceolate, a quarter of an inch long, minutely mucronate; petals red-purple, lingulate, half as long again as the sepals.Edited from : Baker 1879b. (protologue) A Synopsis of the Genus Aechmea, R. & P. .