plant lacking rhizomes, flowering 25–30 cm tall. leaves 10 to 12, densely rosulate, subcoriaceous, forming at base a narrow funnelform rosette; sheath broadly obovate, suberect, ca 7 × 5.2 cm, dark colored mainly adaxially, densely brown lepidote; blade narrowly subtriangular, acute and distinctly apiculatecaudate, suberect with spreading apex, slightly canaliculate, 7–9 × 2.5–3 cm, densely to subdensely covered by white trichomes on both sides, obscuring the green to reddish-green color of the blades, margins inconspicuously truncate, ca 0.5 mm wide, reddish. inflorescence: peduncle erect to suberect, 17–19 cm long, ca 0.4 cm in diameter, dark greenish-purple, glabrous; peduncle bracts erect, broadly ovate, acute and apiculate, green to greenish-purple near the apex, laxly to subdensely white-lepidote near the apex, glabrous elsewhere, exceeding the internodes, the upper ones slightly inflated toward the apex; fertile part simple, suberect, sublinear in outline, ca 7 × 1.8 cm, distichously 6-flowered, rachis ca 5 mm in diameter, flexuous, slightly angled, green, glabrous; floral bracts broadly ovate, acute and apiculate, 27–30 × 21–22 mm, glabrous, lustrous, smooth or nearly so at anthesis, ecarinate, slightly convex, thin in texture, green, truncate at base, equaling to exceeding the sepals but not enfolding them, slightly suberect-secund. flowers ca 40 mm long with petals extended, anthesis nocturnal, scented, densely arranged and secundly erect at anthesis, pedicels ca 5 mm long, ca 6 mm in diameter at apex, ca 4 mm in diameter at base, green, lustrous; sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse to emarginate, 17–18 × ca 10 mm, green except for the dark purplish apex, glabrous, lustrous, strongly convex and cymbiform, ecarinate, thickly coriaceous toward the base; petals narrowly spatulate, apex obtuse-cucullate to slightly emarginate, ca 33 × 12 mm, pale greenishyellow, spreading at anthesis and forming a campanulate corolla ca 25 mm in diameter, bearing at base two lanceolate, slenderly acuminate to bidentate, ca 8 × 3 mm appendages, adnate to the petals for ca 5 mm. stamens radially disposed at anthesis, shorter than the petals; filament not dilated, ca 1 mm in diameter, subterete, the antesepalous ones slightly if at all flexed about 1/3 of its length above the base, the antepetalous ones straight; anther ca 6 mm long, dorsifixed near the base, base and apex both obtuse, straight. pistil: stigma tubolaciniate, inconspicuously crenulate-denticulate, green; ovules shortly caudate. fruits unknown.Edited from : Pereira 1971. (protologue) Species nova in Brasilia Bromeliacearum .