leaves 10–12 in a rosulate aperture barely arranged in a tube, exterior at least the middle recurved, rigid, innermost almost entire except for rough edges with spines to 1 mm long outside ones narrow innermost wide linear, gradually acute to a subpungent tip, up to 0,24 m long, not at al banded. inflorescence nodding, simple lax subracemose, very few or few flowered, glabrous; rachis geniculate;floral bracts minute, scale-like, subovate, pedicels very short adnate to the middle. flowers to 50 mm long, glabrous; sepals pink tip violet, to 15 mm long, well rounded, wide linear; petals green with wide violet edges, 38 mm long, tip rounded, withered flowers porrect. stamens: anther 6 mm long. pistil: ovary green, glabrous, not at all sulcate, to 10 mm long.Translated by Butcher from: Mez 1935. (protologue) Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.