Plant flowering to 1 m high. Leaves 10-20 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, many in a dense rosette; sheaths indistinct; blades lanceolate-triangular, thick, hairless above, prominently nerved beneath; margins with hooked spines 2 mm long. Scape stout with leaf-like bracts. Inflorescence simple, somewhat lax, many-flowered. Pedicels distinct, 2-4 mm long, elongating in fruit. Flowers spreading; sepals 8 mm long hairless; petals 10 mm long, blades spreading, bright yellow.
Southern Brazil
D. choristaminea Mez from south-eastern Brazil grows to 15-25 cm high. Leaves linear 7-12 cm long, 0.5 cm wide; sheaths 2 cm long; margins laxly serrate with spines 2-5 mm long, grey scaled on both sides. Scape slender with overlapping, broadly ovate, bracts. Inflorescence simple, few-flowered, 3-5 cm long, 3 cm wide; axis white woolly. Flowers 18-24 mm long on short stout flower stalks; petals spreading to recurved, yellow, darkened along median line, scented; stamens included.
Source: (2005). Bromeliaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.