plant saxicolous, flowering 10�13 cm tall, 15�20 cm in diameter; rosettes acaulescent, spherical in outline, solitary or forming clumps of two to four rosettes. leaves numerous, longer than the inflorescence; sheath cream coloured toward the base on both sides, square to transversely widely oblong, 10�14 mm long, 12�14 mm wide, densely grey lepidote, glabrous at the base on both surfaces; blade densely grey lepidote, linear triangular, 80�100 mm long, 8�10 mm wide, recurved, long attenuate. inflorescence short pedunculate, nested in the center of the rosette, erect, onesbranched, with 2�3 spikes; peduncle conspicuous, 10�20 mm long, fully covered by bracts; peduncle bracts similar to the leaves, longer than the inflorescence but decreasing in size distally, densely grey lepidote; spikes white-greenish, rose to at the apex, erect and appressed to the peduncle, dorsiventrally flattened, elliptic, 28�33 mm long, 17�20 mm wide, 2�4 flowered; floral bracts white greenish to rose, ovate when extended, 18�20 mm long, 8�10 mm wide, acute to acuminate, nerved, carinate, lepidote on both surfaces. flowers distichous, erect and appressed to the rachis; sepals yellowish-green towards the base, pale rose at the apex, lanceolate, 12�15 mm long, 3�5 mm wide, acuminate, the two adaxial ones carinate, glabrous adaxially, scattered lepidote abaxially; petals white in its basal half, to dark green in its apical half, narrowly oblong, 16�17 mm long, ca 2 mm wide, rounded to obtuse. stamens all equal; filament white, filiform, 11�15 mm long; anther black, 2.5�3 mm long. pistil: ovary green, ellipsoid, 3�5 mm long, 2�3 mm in diameter; style white, 10�15 mm long; stigma branches green. fruits not seen.Edited from (22-10-2021): Hernandez et al. 2021. (protologue) Two new species of Viridantha (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae) .