leaves to 6 dm long; sheath large, narrowly ovate-oblong; blade ligulate, acuminate, 3–4 cm wide, densely serrate with upwardly curved teeth 2.5 mm long, densely and minutely appressed-white-lepidote, concolorous. inflorescence: peduncle arching, stout, farinose; peduncle bracts imbricate, ample, over 15 cm long; fertile part simple, many-flowered, laxly spicate, cylindric, over 3 dm long; axis stout, sulcate, white-farinose; floral bracts reflexed, squamiform-ovate, apiculate, 4 mm long, densely farinose. flowers spreading or reflexed, probably at least 6 cm long, sessile; sepals narrowly ovate, obtuse, soon glabrous, unequal, one to 17 mm long, the others to 15 mm; petals linear, spirally recurved at anthesis, green. pistil: ovary slenderly ellipsoid, 15–20 mm long, densely white-farinose, coarsely sulcate with the ridges soon glabrous, the epigynous tube narrow, 3 mm long.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.