plant epiphytic or rupicolous, flowering 30–40 cm high; rosette infundibuliform. leaves ca 8–10 in number, abaxially sparsely to conspicuously lepidote, adaxially glabrous; sheath elliptical, 7.2–10.6 x 3.0–6.0 cm, abaxially green, adaxially pale or purpureus, margins entire; blade linear, 22.5–63.5 x 1.5–3.0 cm, green, slightly canaliculate, margins entire throughout to laxly and remotely spinulose, spines 0.5–1.0 mm, apex acute to attenuate, mucronate. inflorescence: peduncle erect, slender, 18–26 cm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, green, white-floccose to sparsely lepidote; peduncle bracts lanceolate, membranaceous, 2.0–4.0 x 0.4–0.7 cm, pale-greenish, margins entire, glabrous to sparsely lepidote inflorescence simple, pseudosimple with 1–2 short branches (ca; 1.0 cm) to distinticly once-branched, with 2–4 branches (2.0–3.5 cm), pyramidal or cylindrical, 5.0–10 x 3.0–6.5 cm, rachis green, white-floccose to sparsely lepidote; primary bracts lanceolate, membranaceous, 1.0–2.3 x 0.4–0.5 cm, pale greenish, margins entire, glabrous to sparsely lepidote; floral bracts acuminate or lanceolate, membranaceous, pale-greenish, nerved, margins entire, sparsely lepidote, ecarinate, not enfolding the flowers, equaling to slightly passing the ovary, 0.6–1.0 x 0.4–0.5 cm. flowers sessile, 1.8–2.0 cm long, polystichously arranged; sepals 8.0 x 5.0–7.0 mm, free, pale, glabrous, strongly asymmetrical with the lateral wings convolute to the left, apex apiculate, not pungent, turned to the left placing the apiculus horizontally; petals 13 x 3.0 mm, spatulate, apex acuminate, white, patent to slightly recurved, unappendaged, bearing two longitudinals callosities, 9.0 mm long. stamens partially included; filament 8.0 mm long, the antesepalous free, the antepetalous highly adnated to the petals by 6.0 mm; anther white, 4.0 mm. pistil: stigma conduplicate-spiral, exserted, green; ovary 5.0–8.0 mm long, cylindrical, green, sparsely white-lepidote, epigynous tube ca 1.0 mm long; placentation apical, ovules numerous, elliptical, non caudate, fruit not analyzed.Edited from : Faria & Wendt 2004. The real identity of Aechmea turbinocalyx. .