This lovely Brazilian plant with silver banded chocolate-brown leaves, is one of the best of the genus. Resembling a Cryptanthus in general shape, but larger and more arching, it produces a very tall green inflorescence with burr-like floral bracts and small plantlets. Once very rare and costly. 

A nice species from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Open rosettes of relatively soft, 3/4 inch wide leaves with moderate marginal spines are coppery colored, glabrous above and somewhat scurffy below. Very colorful with a bright yellow inflorescence. Produces offsets on slender, 6 inch stolons. A rarely seen species.

An as yet unidentified Orthophytum species collected in Brazil in 2009 by Rafael Olivera de Faria. A robust plant with chocolate-brown foliage with heavy silver scurffing that lightens towards the leaf tips. The inflorescence is a tall scape with strobilate branches with red bracts that fade to green with age, and white flowers.