Hohenbergia blanchetii (Baker) E.Morren ex Mez
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Blanchet 2996 (holotype, BM, photo GH), Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil.
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Synonyms
Aechmea blanchetii Baker
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Description
Species Description - Plant flowering 2 m high. Leaves many in a dense spreading rosette, to 2 m long; sheaths very large, broadly elliptic, entire, dark castaneous, covered with minute appressed brown scales; blades ligulate, broadly acute then narrowed into a very stout pungent spine, 6-15 cm wide, coriaceous, minutely pale-lepidote especially beneath, laxly serrate with stout dark antrorse spines 4 mm long. Scape stout, erect; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper lanceolate, pungent, entire, papyraceous, pale. Inflorescence very broadly pyramidal, to 16 dm in diameter, very laxly 3-5-pinnate; axes flocculose when young, soon glabrous; spikes subsessile, globose to sybcylindric, 15-20 mm long, few-flowered. Floral bracts suborbicular, mucronulate, 5 mm long, strongly convex, nerved, glabrous; flowers 8-10 mm long. Sepals free, strongly asymmetric, emarginate, 3.5 mm long; petals 7 mm long, blue when dry, blades elliptic, obtuse; ovary 3 mm long, triangulate; placentae apical; ovules caudate. Fruit whitish.
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Distribution
Epiphytic, Bahia and Espirito Santo, Brazil.
Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America|