plant stemless, flowering up to 1,20 m high. leaves forming a rosette, up to 1 m in diameter; sheath narrow-ovate, 2–3 cm high, 1,5–2 cm wide, very succulent, glabrous; blade sub-erect to attached to the ground, acuminate-obtuse, broadly lanceolate, up to 50 cm long, to 5–8 (–10) cm wide, to 5 mm thick, somewhat constricted at base, not definitely petiolate, entire, dark green, often reddish beneath, glabrous above, sparsely lepidote beneath, nerved. inflorescence: peduncle erect, to 70–80 cm long, red, white-lepidote, 5–7 mm thick, often somewhat waxy; peduncle bracts erect, triangular, acuminate, lepidote, red, always longer than the internodes, entire; fertile part laxly tri-pinnate, erect, 20–30 cm long, 10–20 cm wide, axes red, lepidote; primary bracts lanceolate-acuminate, the lower to 3 mm wide and 15 mm long, lepidote beneath; branches erect-spreading, up to 13 cm long; floral bracts 2–3 mm long, usually longer than the pedicels. flowers laxly arranged, secund/nutant; pedicel 1–2 mm long; sepals 2–3 mm long, glabrous, reddish; petals 4–5 mm long, white, recurved but not recoiled, becoming straight at postanthesis, stamens and style exposed at anthesis.Edited from : Ibisch 1998. (protologue) Conservation status of the Bolivian species of the genus Puya, applying a new method of evaluation .