Hohenbergia ramageana Mez

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Hohenbergia ramageana Mez

  • Type

    Type. Ridley & Ramage s n (holotype, BM; photo US), Dois Irmãos, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 28 Jul 1887.

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering 1 m high. Leaves many in a broadly funnelform rosette, 5-7 dm long, covered with pale appressed scales on both sides; sheaths broadly elliptic, large but only slightly wider than the blades, entire, dark castaneous; blades ligulate, broadly acute, pungent, 5-10 cm wide, serrate toward base with curved spines 3 mm long. Scape erect, stout, exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate, strongly clasping, lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous. Inflorescence laxly pyramidal, 4-pinnate, 4 dm long, pale-flocculose; primary bracts much shorter than the branches; spikes sessile or subsessile, subcylindric, 3 cm long, few-flowered. Floral bracts very broadly ovate, broadly rounded and mucronulate, to 8 mm long, much exceeded by the sepals, strongly convex, nerved, yellowish. Sepals strongly asymmetric, short-mucronulate, 4.5 mm long, short-connate; petals to 11 mm long, blue when dry; ovary ellipsoid; ovules caudate.

  • Common Names

    Sincho

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic, saxicolous, and terrestrial, at mostly low altitudes, Rio Grande do Norte to Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brazil.

    Brazil South America| Rio Grande do Norte Brazil South America| Paraíba Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America| São Paulo Brazil South America|