plant nearly stemless, clustering, flowering to 90 cm tall. leaves essentially monomorphic, rosulate, spreading, ca 12 in number, 60–100 cm long; sheath elliptic to triangular, 4–10 x 3–5 cm, entire, nerved, castaneous, densely brown-lepidote abaxially, nearly glabrous adaxially; blade with a 8–20 cm x 10–15 mm entire or very laxly serrulate, channeled, reddish pseudopetiole; the upper portion of the blade narrowly elliptic, attenuate, 3–8 cm wide, undulate, channeled, densely pale-lepidote abaxially, nearly glabrous adaxially, green tinged reddish. inflorescence: peduncle erect, 25 x 1 cm, brown-floccose; peduncle bracts erect, densely imbricate, narrowly elliptic, the lowest with attenuate blades, the uppermost acute, entire, nerved, punctatelepidote, reddish brown; fertile part simple, cylindric, 65–75 x 4–5 cm; floral bracts dimorphic; the lowest fertile, erect, densely imbricate, acute, 4–7 x 1–2 cm, thin-coriaceous, nerved, the margins crispate, subdensely punctate- lepidote, brown; the upper mostly sterile, spreading then incurving, acute, 2–3 cm x 5–12 mm, very thin-coriaceous, nerved, pale stellate-lepidote, bright red rapidly turning black. flowers subsessile, spreading at ca 30° from the axis at anthesis, 70–75 mm long; sepals subtriangular, acute, 20–25 mm long, subcoriaceous, brown-lepidote, greenish, the adaxial pair obtusely carinate; corolla erect, zygomorphic; petals ligulate, broadly acute, 60–70 x 10–13 mm, each with a 12–14 mm long subtriangular basal appendage, orange-yellow. pistil: ovary ca3/4 superior. fruits a dry capsule to 2 cm long; seeds triangular, winged, 1.5 x 1 mm.Edited from : Luther 2001e. An unusual new Species of Pepinia from Southeastern Peru .