plant stemless, flowering 20–35 cm high, forming groups. leaves numerous; sheath distinct, 2 cm high, 2 cm wide, white to brown, in the lower part glabrous, upper half scaled; blade 15–35 cm long, above the sheath 3–4 mm wide, tapering to a long filiform bent back soon drying tip, weakly canaliculate, edges with 3–5 mm apart erect, brown spines, 1 mm long , both sides white felted, scales asymmetrical; inf1orescence 20 cm long, simple raceme, many flowered. inflorescence: peduncle erect, 10–15 cm long, 3 mm thick, green to a delicate pink, dense white woolly; internodes 0,5 cm long; peduncle bracts erect, the basal ones subfoliate, the upper ones with approximately 1 cm long, adjacent to the peduncle, creamy white, glabrous sheath and long filiform, spiny blade, similar to the floral bracts above; floral bracts membranous, tender pink flesh colored, longish ovate, acuminate, concave, the basal ones to 2 cm long, the upper ones shorter, 0,5 cm wide, nerved, densely scaled, edges weakly spined. flowers erect to spreading, at anthesis diverging, without stem 2 cm long; pedicel 0,5–0,8 cm long, white flaky; sepals free, 1 cm long, the adaxial pair unclearly keeled, longish triangular, acuminate, rosy, flaky scaled; petals bottle green, towards the base white, longish ovate, 1,6 cm long, 1 cm wide, tips spreading, postfloral lilac coloured, a little twisted. stamens and style enclosed. pistil: style shorter than the stamens; anther gold-yellow, filaments flattened; ovary almost fully superior; ovules numerous, probably winged seeds.Translated by Butcher from: Rauh 1985a. (protologue) Bromelienstudien (Mitteilung 16). I. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern .