plant lithophytic, flowering ca 100 cm high. leaves densely rosulate suberect, forming a broad funnelform rosette at base; sheath broadly elliptic, ca 10 cm long, ca 11 cm wide, densely brown lepidote on both sides, pale; blade sublinear, 35 cm long, 7 cm wide, not narrowed at base, apex short acuminate and incurvate, subglabrous and green on both sides. inflorescence: peduncle ca 70 cm long, ca 0.8–1.3 cm in diameter, rigid, erect, sulcate, distinctly longer than the leaves, red, glabrous; peduncle bracts suberect to near spreading, apex distinctly recurvate, red, concealing the peduncle, the basal ones subfoliaceous, longer than the internodes, the upper ones 3–6 cm long, suborbiculate, apex acuminate or subacute and apiculate, equaling or surpassing the internodes; fertile part short-paniculate, subdensely once-branched, 20–30 cm long, 20–30 cm in diameter, erect; primary bracts orbiculate, obtuse and short-apiculate, ca 3 cm long, ca 3 cm wide, red, equaling the sterile bases of the branches; branches ca 7 cm wide ( excluding the petals), subspreading, sometimes slightly secund and decurved, subdensely flowered, the lateral ones 4–11, 10–15 cm long, with 13–16 flowers, peduncle ca 3 cm long; ca 0.5 cm diameter, thick, the terminal one ca 20 cm long; rachis geniculate, glabrous sulcate, greenish, 5 mm in diameter; floral bracts orbiculate, ca 3 cm long, apex obtuse, distinctly concave, gibbous near the base, sulcate, subcoriaceous, ecarinate, red (photos show yellow as does grant’s differential in a; heloisae!), inconspicuously lepidote inside, not imbricate after anthesis, enfolding the sepals and slightly shorter to equaling them. flowers distichous, not secund, near spreading, ca 3.5 cm long (excluding the petals), pedicels stout, slightly complanate, ca 6 mm long, ca 8 mm in diameter; sepals slightly asymmetric, obovate, rounded, ca 30 mm long, ca 17 mm wide, glabrous, free, ecarinate, yellow; petals known only by immature or depauperate segments, apex narrowly obtuse, bearing two obovate, obtuse appendages at base. stamens ca 70 mm long; anther linear, ca 13 mm long, base and apex obtuse, fixed near the base.Edited from : Leme 1993b. (protologue) Two New Lithiophytic Species from Bahia, Brazil .