plant lacking rhizomes, flowering ca 80 cm tall. leaves 18 to 20, rosulate, thickly coriaceous, forming at base a broad funnelform rosette; sheath broadly elliptic, suberect, ca 14 x 8.5 cm, very densely pale brown-lepidote, slightly castaneous; blade narrowly triangular, acuminate, flat toward base and strongly reflexed at anthesis mainly the basal ones, ca 40 cm long, ca 6.5 cm wide at base, silvery-white on both sides due to green color completely obscured by a very dense layer of white trichomes, finely nerved abaxially, margins distinctly truncate, ca 2 mm thick. inflorescence: peduncle suberect, ca 45 cm long, ca 1 cm in diameter, green, glabrous, strongly sulcate when dry; peduncle bracts the basal ones foliaceous, the upper ones broadly ovate, acuminate, 3–4.5 x 2–3 cm, erect, equaling to exceeding the internodes, imbricate, densely white-lepidote outside and toward apex, the upper ones distinctly nerved to sulcate at anthesis, greenish toward base, purplish near the apex, lustrous; fertile part simple, suberect, sublinear, 35 x 3.5–4 cm, distichously ca 18-flowered, apex forming a crest of floral bracts early before anthesis; rachis ca 8 mm in diameter, stout, flexuous, green, glabrous, strongly sulcate when dry; floral bracts broadly ovate, acute and bearing a distinct, incurved apiculus, ca 40 x 35 mm, white-lepidote mainly toward apex, obtusely carinate, imbricate and divergently arranged before anthesis, secund with the flowers at anthesis, coriaceous, greenish to dark purplish-green, lustrous, very strongly sulcate at anthesis, corrugate near the apex, without conspicuous decurrent auricles at base, about equaling at least 2/3 of the sepals length, the apical ones not imbricate toward their apex and forming a narrow crest early before anthesis. flowers ca 45 mm long, anthesis nocturnal, producing an odor somewhat related to garlic, very densely arranged and divergent-erect before anthesis, subdensely arranged and distinctly secund at anthesis, pedicel 10 mm long, stout; sepals suboblong to ovate, rounded, 28 x 14–15 mm, dark green, inconspicuously lepidote inside to glabrous, ecarinate, thickly coriaceous near the base; petals obovate, apex broadly emarginate, spreading at anthesis, ca 40 x 20 mm, pale yellowish-green, bearing at base 2 subobovate, irregularly long dentate to acuminate, 12–13 x 3 mm appendages basally adnate to the petals for ca 6 mm, corolla ca 27 mm in diameter. stamens disposed in two rows with three of them on each lateral side of the corolla at anthesis; filament free, ca 25 x 1.5 mm; anther ca 7 mm long, dorsifixed near the base, base sagittate, apex obtuse. pistil: stigma tubolaciniate, distinctly crenulate-laciniate on the margins, ca 2 mm in diameter, green; ovules apiculate to shortly caudate.Edited from : Vidalia, Revista da. (protologue) .