plant flowering 6 dm high. leaves unknown. inflorescence: peduncle straight, 6 mm in diameter; peduncle bracts erect, densely imbricate, broadly elliptic with a pungent brown terminal cusp, covered with fine white appressed scales, the lowest ones serrulate near the apex, the central ones over 10 cm long, the higher ones entire; fertile part simple, strobilate, cylindric, acute, 9 cm long, 25 mm in diameter, white-flocculose, becoming glabrous; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, very broadly ovate with a long soft acuminate apex, 16 mm long, about equaling the sepals, nearly flat, thin, strongly nerved. flowers: sepals 8 mm long, connate for 2 mm, the free lobes asymmetric, subelliptic with an acute but soft apex; petals bearing 2 subentire scales near the base; epigynous tube 1.5 mm long; placentae apical; ovules apiculate.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.