plant epiphytic or terrestrial, 60–70 cm tall when flowering, shortly stoloniferous. leaves 12 to 16 in number, thinly coriaceous, suberect, forming a narrow funnelform rosette, shorter than to exceeding the inflorescence; sheath narrowly oblong-ovate, 14–17 × 4.3–5.0 cm, inconspicuously white lepidote on both sides, nerved, purple adaxially and toward the apex, greenish abaxially; blade linear, the apex acuminate to triangular and apiculate, 25–85 × 2.0–3.2 cm, canaliculate and narrowed toward the base, bearing a u-shaped protruded central channel near the base, entire or remotely spinulose near the apex, inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote on both sides, green to yellowish green or sometimes reddish, except for the blackish apex, finely nerved. inflorescence: peduncle erect, slender, terete, 40–45 cm long, 0.4–0.6 cm in diameter, subdensely white sublanate to glabrescent, green; peduncle bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 35–60 × 8–12 mm, membranaceous, erect, shorter than to exceeding the internodes, exposing the peduncle in most part, entire, pale green, nerved, inconspicuously white sublanate mainly toward the base; fertile part simple, dense, cylindric, 12–16 cm long, ca 2.5 cm in diameter (excluding the petals), rachis green, subdensely and inconspicuously white sublanate, angled; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate-caudate, spreading with the flowers, membranaceous, pale yellowish-green, inconspicuously white sublanate near the base, entire, finely nerved, 8–23 × 2.5–4.5 mm, the lower ones equaling to exceeding the flowers, the upper ones shorter than the sepals. flowers 60–90 in number, 15–16 mm long, sessile, polystichously arranged, spreading, odorless, anthesis diurnal; sepals ovate, 6–7 × 4.5 mm (including the apical mucro), strongly asymmetric, the lateral wing rounded, membranaceous, exceeding the apex (without mucro), bearing a suberect to spreading slender mucro 2–3 mm long at the apex, subfree, ecarinate, sparsely and inconspicuously white lepidote, yellowish-green; petals narrowly subspatulate, apex triangular and apiculate, 11–12 × 3 mm, free, without appendages, bearing 2 conspicuous longitudinal callosities ca 6 mm above the base and equaling the filaments; the blade lilac, divergent and recurved at the apex at anthesis. stamens included; filament the antepetalous ones adnate to the petals at the base for ca 4 mm, the antesepalous ones free; anther linear-saggitate, apex acuminate, ca 3 mm long, dorsifixed near the middle; pollen ellipsoid, biporate, pores small, exine reticulate, lumina subrounded, muri slightly thickened. pistil: stigma conduplicate-spiral, subcylindric, whitish-lilac, blades shortly lacerate-papillose, ca 3 mm long; ovary broadly obconic, terete, ca 5 mm long, ca 4.5 mm in diameter at the apex, pale green; epigynous tube inconspicuous, ca 0.5 mm long; placentation apical; ovules obtuse. fruits unknown.Edited from : Leme & Kollmann 2011. (protologue) New species and a new combination of Brazilian Bromeliaceae. .