; 0 epiphytic herb, 62–100 cm high, with 1 to 4 basal rosettes on the flowering or fruiting plant, or the plants (more commonly) monocarpic; 1 rosette with 12 to 18 leaves when flowering, with open aspect, slightly funnelform when young, foliar blades slightly to strongly twisted (curved outward and pointing forward), spreading to reflexed, foliar sheaths barely impounding; 2 foliar sheaths of external leaves almost flat, those of internal loaves forming a funnelform structure, straight and erect, white-lepidote externally, somewhat concave; 3 foliar blades widely triangular at base, attenuate and acute, long-caudate, coriaceous, rather stiff, conspicuously nerved abaxially, 30–32 x 2.54 cm, light green adaxially, white-lepidote abaxially, margins slightly curving upward into a canaliculate structure. inflorescence pyramidal, a panicle, 32–39 cm, with up to 11 spikes, the new inflorescence developing very slowly and taking up to 3 months before the first flowers open; successively flowering basipetally for several weeks; peduncle shorter or as long as the leaves, pink, glaucous, 21–40 cm, ca 1 cm diam., covered by tubular, acute, imbricate bracts; internodes 2–4 cm long; peduncle bracts almost covering the internodes, green and glaucous, 3.5–4.5 x 2–2.6 cm (longer and wider toward the base), widely triangular, acute, margins hyaline, conspicuously nerved when dry, slightly surpassing the internodes; inflorescence* rachis red or pinkish flesh-colored, 0.5 cm diam., naked, flexuous, erect; spikes 8 to 11, rachis green, almost obscured by floral bracts, dorsoventrally flattened with flowers in 2 rows; bracts of the spikes widely triangular, obtuse, 2.3 x 1.4 cm, entire, slightly pink, white-lepidote; floral bracts narrowly triangular, nerved, acute, margins hyaline, barely covering the rachis, 1.4 x 0.8–0.9 cm, green, shorter than the sepals, white lepidote adaxially. flowers 5–6.5 cm, actinomorphic, erect, 1 to 4 open daily per inflorescence (1 at a time per spike), each flower lasting 1 day, protandrous, odorless, basally geniculate; sepals narrowly triangular to wide-elliptic, obtusely acute, 1.8–2.5 x 0.7–1.3 cm, 2 sepals basally connate by 6–15 mm, apple green, slightly darker and shinier than petals; petals narrowly oblong, apically rounded, 3.2–3.8 x 0.4–0.8 cm, slightly oblique, constricted ca 1.5 cm distally from base, pale green to cream-green, basally white. stamens exserted, in 2 series, filaments concolorous with petals, plicate, lighter at the base, 5–5.5 cm; anther brown, 8 mm, dorsifixed, pollen yellow. pistil: ovary 15 mm, pyramidal; nectar sweet, abundant, 31º brix (total concentration of sugars); stigma exserted, slightly protruding above the anthers at anthesis, lobes conduplicate, somewhat spiraled, 4.7–4.9 cm, basally light green, apically apple green. fruits and seeds not observed.Edited from : Novon. (protologue) .