plant a terrestrial, flowering 50–80 cm tall. leaves densely rosulate, spreading, 20–30 cm long; sheath orbicular, 20–25 x 20–25 mm, pale at the base, castaneous and lustrous toward the blade, entire, sparsely pale punctate-lepidote especially abaxially; blade very narrowly triangular, attenuate, 3–6 mm wide, serrate with antrorse, black, slender 3–5 mm long spines, pale punctate-lepidote especially abaxially. inflorescence: peduncle erect, 30 cm x 8 mm, pale stellate-lepidote, drying dark; peduncle bracts very narrowly triangular from an ovate base, subfoliaceous, laxly serrate; fertile part erect, simple, 22 x 3 cm, polystichously ca 30-flowered; floral bracts ovate to triangular, acute, pungent, laxly serrulate, 15–25 x 10–18 mm, obtusely carinate, sparsely pale stellate-lepidote, lustrous, reddish-brown. flowers with a stout 2 mm long pedicel, 20–24 mm long, green (! h; van der werff); sepals elliptic, acute, 10–12 mm long, nerved, obtusely carinate, lustrous, very sparsely pale stellate-lepidote; corolla slightly spreading; petals free, naked, spatulate, obtuse, 18–20 x 7–10 mm, equaling to exceeding the stamens.Edited from : Luther 2002b. (protologue) Miscellaneous new taxa of Bromeliaceae (XVII) .