plant rupicolous, flowering ca 23 cm tall, propagating by several basal shoots. leaves 10 to 12 in number, rosulate, subcoriaceous, forming a subtubular rosette; sheath broadly ovate, 6 x 5–5.5 cm, densely and minutely white lepidote on both surfaces, winish brown adaxially; blade narrowly triangular, apex caudate, erect or nearly so with strongly recurved apex, 13–14 x 2.8–3.7 cm, greenish-brown to dark reddishbrown, densely white-lepidote on both surfaces. inflorescence: peduncle suberect to spreading, ca 13 cm long, 3–4 mm in diameter, green, glabrous; peduncle bracts erect, the basal ones subfoliaceous, the upper ones ovate, acute, and apiculate, green, glabrous, exceeding the internodes; fertile part simple, laterally spreading from the rosette, ascending toward the apex, ca 5 cm long, distichously ca 7-flowered, rachis 3–4 mm in diameter, slightly flexuous, green, glabrous; floral bracts broadly ovate to suborbicular, subobtuse and apiculate, 17–20 x 16–17 mm, glabrous, smooth or nearly so at the anthesis, ecarinate, convex, fleshy coriaceous toward the base, thin in texture toward the apex and margins, green, truncate at the base, equaling 3/5 of sepal length, slightly secund with the flowers. flowers ca 32 mm long with petals extended, anthesis nocturnal, densely arranged and slightly secund at anthesis, pedicels ca 4 mm long, ca 5 mm in diameter at the apex, ca 3 mm in diameter at the base, green; sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse-emarginate, 16–17 x 11 mm, green, glabrous, convex, ecarinate, thinly coriaceous mainly toward the base; petals narrowly elliptic-obovate, apex narrowly obtuse-emarginate, ca 26 x 8 mm, greenish-yellow, free, erect or slightly suberect at anthesis and forming a sub-tubular corolla at least soon after the anthesis, bearing at the base 2 obovate, obtuse, 3.5–4 x 1.5 mm appendages adnate to the petals for ca 1.5 mm. stamens shorter than the petals; filament ca 1 mm wide, slightly complanate, not dilated; anther ca 5 mm long, dorsifixed near the base, base bilobed and apex obtuse, inconspicuously apiculate. pistil: stigma imperfectly known, convolute-bladed, green; ovules caudate. fruits unknown.Edited from : Leme 2017. (protologue) Revision of the Lithophytic Vriesea Species of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Part VII: a new species from the summit of Pico da Aliança .