leaves rosulate, stiff, erect, 1 m or longer; blade 35 mm wide, entire or nearly so except for the pungent, involute apex. inflorescence: peduncle erect, elongate, slender, to 15 mm thick in life; peduncle bracts foliaceous, erect; syncarp subcylindric, ca 12 cm long, 5 cm thick in life, bearing numerous, short, foliaceous branches at base and apex, the flesh scant and unpalatable, the coma large; floral bracts small, entire. flowers: sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, ca 7 mm long; petals 17 mm long. fruits: seeds few or none; type; description.Edited from : Smith & Downs 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica.