plant an epiphyte, 60 – 80 cm in diameter, 80 – 100 cm long with the inflorescence extended. leaves laxly spreading in a dense rosette, 50 to 80 in number leaf sheaths ovate to broadly elliptic, 8 – 10 x 6 – 9 cm, castaneous especially adaxially, densely brown punctatelepidote especially adaxially; blade narrow triangular, attenuate, 25 – 40 x 2 – 3 cm, moderately coriaceous, densely punctate-lepidote especially abaxially, grey to grey-green. inflorescence: peduncle 12 – 20 cm x 3 – 6 mm, semi-erect to arcuate, glabrous, dull green tinged reddish; peduncle bracts broadly elliptic with a long, narrowly triangular blade, laxly imbricate, exposing much of the peduncle, densely lepidote, grey-green to pink; fertile part pendulous, 40 – 70 x 10 – 15 cm with 12 to 30 branches; primary bracts like the upper peduncle bracts but without the long blade, mostly apiculate, mostly shorter than the peduncles, grey-green to pink; branches spreading at ca 30̊ from the axis with an ebracteate 3 – 7 cm x 2 – 4 mm flattened peduncle that exceeds nearly all of the primary bracts; the fertile portion 4 – 8 x 1 – 2 cm, 4 to 10 flowered; floral bracts elliptic, acute, 20 – 26 x 8 – 10 mm nerved, variably carinate, tightly imbricate in life, spreading when dried, glabrous except for a few pale fimbriate trichomes at the very apex, bright magenta pink, somewhat glaucose. flowers distichously arranged, 2 -- 4 mm pedicellate, opening during the day; sepals narrowly elliptic, acute, free, 17 – 19 mm long, carinate, nerved, glabrous, pale green; corolla semi-tubular, spreading at the apex, blue-violet to blue, paler proximally; petals ligulate, acute, 38 – 42 mm long with a pair of basal appendages. stamens & style exserted.Edited from : Luther & Norton 2010. (protologue) A New Grey Vriesea from Northern Peru .