plant rupiculous, propagating by short basal shoots, flowering ca 70 cm tall. leaves 28–30, very densely rosulate, subcoriaceous, forming a funnelform rosette at base; sheath broadly elliptic, suberect and slightly inflated, 8–11 x 6–8.5 cm, very densely pale brown-lepidote, castaneous to blackish toward base; blade narrowly triangular, acuminate-caudate, suberect to nearly spreading, 21–24 x 3–4 cm, light green except for the dark reddish margins, subdensely but very inconspicuously white-lepidote adaxially, glabrous abaxially. inflorescence: peduncle suberect, 25–35 cm long, ca 0.7 cm in diameter, glabrous, light green; peduncle bracts the basal ones foliaceous with recurved apex, upper ones erect, broadly ovate, broadly acute and minutely apiculate, ca 25 x 20 mm, subcoriaceous, light green or the apex dark purple to nearly blackish, slightly shorter than the internodes; fertile part simple, linear, suberect-ascending toward apex, 20–30 cm long, distichously 18 to 25-flowered, rachis 4–6 mm in diameter, stout, flexuous, slightly angled, green, glabrous; floral bracts orbicular, obtuse-emarginate, 20–24 x 20 mm, glabrous outside, very inconspicuously whitelepidote inside, ecarinate, coriaceous, strongly concave and gibbous, green toward base, dark purple or dark purplish-wine near the apex, base bearing very inconspicuous auricles slightly decurrent on the rachis, about equaling 1/3 of the sepals length and not completely enfolding them, secund with the flowers. flowers ca 45 mm long, anthesis nocturnal, densely arranged and downwardly secund at anthesis, pedicels ca 10 mm long, stout, green, glabrous; sepals oblong-obovate, obtuse and emarginate, ca 20–21 x 15–16 mm, yellowish-green except for the brownish-purple apical margins, ecarinate, inconspicuously lepidote inside, glabrous outside, coriaceous and thick at base; petals subspathulate-obovate, apex emarginate, spreading-recurved at anthesis, ca 40 x 20 mm, forming a campanulate corolla ca 25 mm in diameter at apex, very pale yellowish-green, bearing at base two subsymmetrical, obovate, coarsely long-laciniate, 7–9 x 3 mm appendages adnate to the petals for ca 5 mm. stamens: filament slightly complanate, free, ca 30 x 2 mm; anther ca 6 mm long, dorsi fixed near the base, base shortly sagittate, apex obtuse. pistil: stigma tubular, green, about equaling the anthers, ca 2 mm in diameter at apex, lobes truncate, apical margins erect, crenulate; ovules shortly caudate.Edited from : Leme & Silva 2001. (protologue) Two Apple-green New Species from Southeastern Brazil .