Hohenbergia attenuata Britton

  • 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 attenuata Britton

  • Type

    Type. Shafer 3567 (holotype, NY), vicinity of Río Icaco, Sierra de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, 30 Jul-5 Aug 1914.

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering over 6 dm high. Leaves ligulate, to 6 dm long, 3-6 cm wide, subcoriaceous, minutely lepidote beneath, serrate with fine brown teeth, 1-1.5 mm long and averaging about 6 mm apart, attenuate, terminating in an elongate dark-brown horny mucro. Scape erect, much shorter than the leaves, 5-6 mm in diameter, glabrous at least in age; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceous, pungent, spinulose. Inflorescence bipinnate, thyrsoid, 1-3 dm long, 6-7 cm in diameter, dense at apex, interrupted toward base; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much indurated toward apex, the lower serrulate and much exceeding the spikes, the upper entire and shorter than the spikes; spikes broadly ellipsoid, 2-3 cm long, short-stalked or sessile. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, evenly acuminate into a broad flat dark-brown spine, 10-14 mm long. Sepals strongly asymmetric, 5 mm long including the short mucro, sparsely lepidote with pale appressed scales; ovary much enlarged in fruit, sparsely lepidote; seeds fusiform, 2 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic and saxicolous, 600-945 m alt, Puerto Rico.

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