plant epiphytic, shortly stoloniferous. leaves ca 11 in number, thin in texture, suberect, forming a narrow funnelform rosette, exceeding the inflorescence; sheath elliptic-obovate, 7–8 × 4.0–5.5 cm, inconspicuously white lepidote on both sides, nerved, wine colored adaxially toward the base, greenish abaxially; blade linear, narrowly acute and apiculate to acuminate-caudate, 22–35 × 1.5–2.8 cm, canaliculate mainly toward the base, entire, inconspicuously white lepidote on both sides, green, distinctly nerved mainly abaxially. inflorescence: peduncle erect, slender, ca 17 cm long, ca 0.3 cm in diameter, subdensely white sublanate when young; peduncle bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 30–35 × 6 mm, membranaceous, erect, exceeding the internodes, exposing the peduncle in most part, entire, pale green, nerved, inconspicuously white sublanate; fertile part simple, subdense to dense, subcylindric, 4.5–5.0 cm long, ca 2.3 cm in diameter, rachis green, glabrous, slightly sub-angular; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate-caudate, membranaceous, pale greenish, sparsely lepidote to glabrous, entire, finely nerved, 5–17 × 2.5–4.0 mm, the lower ones slightly exceeding the ovary to equaling the sepals, the upper ones about equaling the ovary. flowers ca 25 in number, 19–20 mm long, sessile, polystichously arranged, divergent, odorless, anthesis diurnal; sepals obovate, ca 7 × 5.5 mm, strongly asymmetrical, the lateral wing rounded, membranaceous, exceeding the apex, bearing at the apex a slender mucro ca 1 mm long, connate for 1.5–2.0 mm, ecarinate, glabrous, green at the base and whitish toward the apex; petals narrowly subspatulate, acute and minutely apiculate, spreading-recurved at anthesis, 15 × 3.0–3.5 mm, free, white, without appendages, bearing 2 conspicuous longitudinal callosities about equaling the filaments. stamens included; filament the antepetalous ones adnate to the petals at the base for ca 7 mm, the antesepalous ones free; anther linear-saggitate, apex acuminate, slightly recurved, ca 3 mm long, dorsifixed near the middle; pollen broadly ellipsoid, biporate, pores small, exine reticulate, lumina subpolygonal, muri slightly thickened. pistil: stigma conduplicate-spiral, subcylindric, green, blades shortly lacerate, ca 3.5 mm long; ovary broadly obconic, terete, ca 5 mm long, ca 5 mm in diameter at the apex, green; epigynous tube inconspicuous, ca 1 mm long; placentation apical; ovules obtuse. fruits unknown.Edited from : Leme & Kollmann 2011. (protologue) New species and a new combination of Brazilian Bromeliaceae. .