plant stemless, flowering up to > 1 m high. leaves erect, to about 55 cm long, petiolate; sheath triangular, to 1.5–2 cm high, to 25 mm wide, brownish when dry, glabrescent, entire; petioles up to 25 cm long, to about 4 mm wide, serrate with few spines above the sheath; blade broadly ovate-lanceolate, long-cuneate, to 30 mm wide, to >25 cm long, entire, abaxially villous-lepidote, adaxially glabrous. inflorescence: peduncle erect, to 85 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, villous-lepidote to glabrescent; peduncle bracts erect, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, the upper ones to 5–6 cm long, all longer than the internodes, villous-lepidote abaxially; fertile part laxly twice-branched, erect, ca 20 cm long, 5 cm long, upper ones to.Edited from : Ibisch et al. 2002. (protologue) Novelties In Bolivian Fosterella (Bromeliaceae) .