Rosette dense, tubular, funnel-shaped. Leaves to 40 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, strapshaped, green, sometimes lightly banded on the underside; margins with very small spines. Scape hairless, reddish. Inflorescence paniculate, pyramidal, branched at the base. Flowers stalkless; sepals hairless, red; petals dark purple-blue, turning red.

A. fulgens is in the subgenus Lamprococcus (Group 2).

Brazil

var. discolor (C. Morren) Baker has red undersides to the leaves and is the most common form in cultivation.

There are many hybrids between A. fulgens and A. miniata. True species of either are rarely found.

Source: Christensen, T.; Butcher, D. (2005). Bromeliaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.