Viridantha uniflora Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr.    

plant saxicolous, flowering 7–10 cm tall, 7–9 cm diameter; rosettes acaulescent, solitary or caespitose, falcate in outline. leaves numerous, shorter or equalling the inflorescence; sheath pale brown on both surfaces, nearly square, 0.8–1 cm long, 0.7–1 cm wide, glabrous towards the base on both surfaces; blade falcate, densely greyish lepidote, narrowly triangular, 3–6 cm long, 0.3–0.4 cm wide, apical portion long attenuate. inflorescence pedunculated, falcate, one-branched, with 3–5 spikes; peduncle 2.5–3.5 cm long, 0.2–0.3 cm diameter, covered by the bracts of the peduncle; peduncle bracts similar to the leaves but reducing in size towards the apical portion, densely greyish lepidote; spikes green, erect and appressed, flattened, elliptic, 1.3–1.5 cm long, 0.4–0.5 cm wide. flowers erect and appressed, only one per spike; floral bracts green to green-brownish, ovate, 1–1.5 cm long, 0.5–0.6 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, ecarinate to slightly carinate at the apex, glabrous adaxially, lepidote abaxially; sepals green, lanceolate, 1–1.3 cm long, 0.3–0.4 cm wide, apex acute, the two adaxial ones carinate, both surfaces glabrous or lepidote abaxially mainly on the keel; petals dark green, narrowly oblong, 1.5–1.8 cm long, 0.2–0.3 cm wide, apex rounded to obtuse. stamens: filament white, 0.8–1.2 cm long, included; anther pale green, 1.2–1.5 mm long. pistil: ovary green, ellipsoid, 2.5–3 mm long, 2–3 mm diameter; style white, 8–10 mm long; style* branches green. fruits not seen.

Edited from : Hernandez et al 2019b. (protologue) Novelties in the genus Viridantha Espejo (Tillandsioideae, Bromeliaceae) .