plant rupicolous, stoloniferous, stems short ca 2.6 cm long. leaves patent or arching; sheath greenishwhite, triangular or ovate, 1–1.4 × 1.3–2.2 cm, glabrous, margins serrate, prickles ca 0.5 mm long; blade coriaceous, slightly concave, pink at base, wine for the, very narrowly triangular, 5–15.5 × 1.2–1.6 cm, attenuate, abaxially densely lepidote, adaxially lepidote, scales densely arranged at base, margins serrate, prickles antrorse 2–3.5 mm long, apices mucronate. inflorescence sessile, simple or compound, many flowered; primary bracts subcoriaceous, pink, triangular or lanceolate, 2–5 × 0.8 cm, lepidote, margins serrate, apices mucronate; vestigial floral bract present; floral bracts subcoriaceous, pink, asymmetrical, triangular, 1.2–1.7 × 0.7–1 cm, lepidote, margins serrate, apices mucronate. flowers: sepals pink, asymmetrical, carinate, narrowly triangular, 1.3–1.6 × 0.3–0.6 cm, lepidote, margins entire, apices mucronate, abaxial one free, adaxial connate; petals white, linear-spatulate, 1.3–1.7 × 0.4 cm, glabrous, apices obtuse; petals* appendages sacciform, lacerate, ca 5 mm from the base; callosities conspicous. stamens with antepetalous filaments ca 5 mm long and adnate to the petals, the antesepalous one free ca 10 mm long; anthers, yellow, ca 3 mm long, apices apiculate, apiculus absent in dry material; ovaries trigonous; epigenous tubes present, ca 2 mm long; ovules numerous. fruits and seeds not seen.Edited from : Louzada & Wanderley 2010. (protologue) Revision of Orthophytum (Bromeliaceae): the species with sessile inflorescences .