Hohenbergia inermis 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. Harris in Bot. Dept. Herb. 9977 (holotype, B; isotypes BM, NY, US), Darliston, Westmoreland Parish, Cornwall, Jamaica, 20 Aug 1907.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering over 1 m long. Leaves about 9 dm long; sheaths scarcely wider than the blades; blades ligulate, 5-8 cm wide, rounded with a pungent mucro, entire except for a few minute teeth near base, stiffly coriaceous, pale-appressed-lepidote, concolorous. Scape decurved, stout, much shorter than the leaves, white-furfuraceous at first, especially at the bases of the bracts; scape-bracts erect, slightly exceeding the internodes, lanceolate, furfuraceous. Inflorescence hanging down outside the leaf-rosette, many-flowered, laxly bipinnate or the lowest branches occasionally bearing a small second spike at the base of the first, dense only at the apex, 4 dm long, 22 cm in diameter; primary bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, the lower about equaling the spikes; uppermost spikes sessile, the lower on stout angled spreading stalks as long as they, slenderly cylindric, acute, 20-flowered, 4-6 cm long and 23 mm in diameter, subglabrous. Floral bracts erect, ovate, broadly acute with a very short mucro, 15 mm long, about equaling the sepals, coriaceous, strongly nerved, yellow, strongly convex; flowers subsessile, much compressed and bialate, 20 mm long, white. Sepals asymmetric, lance-oblong, 8 mm long with a minute micro; petals acute, 14 mm long, 3 mm wide, lance-oblong, each bearing 2 infundibuliform scales with flaring mouths produced upward along the petal, the scales situated just below the middle of the petal; ovules obtuse.
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Distribution
Epiphytic and saxicolous, 180-630 m alt, Jamaica.
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