plant stemless, flowering up to 1 m high, propagating by suckers. leaves forming a bulbous rosette, attached to the ground, up to 80 cm in diameter; sheath broad-ovate, 2–3 cm high, 4–5 cm wide, succulent, white, glabrous, entire; blade lanceolate, up to 40 cm long, up to 2,5 cm wide, not constricted at base, entire, green, white-flocculose-lepidote beneath, sparsely lepidote above. inflorescence: peduncle erect to nodding, 70–85 cm long, up to 6–7 mm thick, sparsely lepidote to glabrous, dark towards the base, green towards the inflorescence; peduncle bracts erect, narrowly triangular, acuminate, the lower densely lepidote, the upper sparsely lepidote, the lower 7–8 cm long, all longer than the intemodes, entire; fertile part laxely once-branched, erect, 15–25 cm long, about 10 cm wide, axes green, almost glabrous; primary bracts narrowlanceolate, long-acuminate, the lower up to 3,5 cm long, reddish, lepidote; branches more than 10, erect-spreading, usually shorter than 10 cm; floral bracts 8–11 mm long, much longer than the pedicels, triangular-acuminate, green to reddish, lepidote. flowers laxly arranged, secund or nutant, opened several days; pedicel green, 2–3 mm long; sepals green, 4–5 mm long, glabrous; petals white, triangular, 9–10 mm long, to 2 mm wide, only slightly recurved at anthesis.Edited from : Ibisch 1998. (protologue) Conservation status of the Bolivian species of the genus Puya, applying a new method of evaluation .