plant clustering, flowering to 8 cm tall. leaves relatively few, spreading, 46 cm long, the sheaths forming a pseudobulbous base ca 2 cm in diameter; sheath ovate, 12–15 x 12 mm, entire, nerved, thin-coriaceous, castaneous; blade very narrowly triangular, acute, pungent, 32–45 x 2–4 mm, coriaceous, nerved, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely and coarsely pale-lepidote, laxly serrate with retrorse 1.5–3 mm long reddish-brown spines. inflorescence: peduncle 2 cm x 1 mm, sulcate, glabrous; peduncle bracts erect, densely imbricate, elliptic, acute to attenuate, 12–15 x 4–8 mm, thin-coriaceous, nerved, pale-lepidote, serrulate with 0.5 mm long spines, rose; fertile part simple, 25 x 20 mm, 5- to 6-flowered; floral bracts elliptic, acute to attenuate, 10–13 x 6–8 mm, thin, carinate toward the apex, nerved, inconspicuously serrulate with 0.3 mm long spines, sparsely pale-lepidote abaxially, rose. flowers with a slender 2–4 mm long pedicel, spreading at 45° from the axis at anthesis; sepals elliptic, acute, 8–10 mm long, nerved, carinate, inconspicuously and minutely serrulate, sparsely pale-lepidote, rose; corolla spreading; petals spathulate, acute, naked, 13–15 mm long, blue-green drying purple. stamens and style included.Edited from : Bromelia. (protologue) .