Hohenbergia penduliflora (A.Rich.) 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 penduliflora (A.Rich.) Mez

  • Type

    Type. Sagra s n (holotype, P; photo GH), Cuba.

  • Synonyms

    Pitcairnia penduliflora Mez, Aechmea distans Griseb., Aechmea wrightii Baker, Aechmea virens Brongn., Hohenbergia ferruginea Carrière, Hohenbergia virens Mez

  • Description

    Description - Plant rather variable. Leaves 5-10 dm long; sheaths indistinct, densely brown-punctulate-lepidote on both sides; blades linear-ligulate, broadly rounded with a broad triangular apiculus, to 12 cm wide, pale-lepidote on both sides, becoming glabrous above, serrate with teeth to 2 mm long or sometimes subentire. Scape more or less arching, floccose, often becoming glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, pale, chartaceous. Inflorescence bipinnate, cylindric, dense at least toward the apex, 2-4 dm long, equaling or exceeding the leaves, more or less floccose-lepidote; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, the lower ones usually exceeding the spikes; spikes spreading or reflexed, ellipsoid or subcylindric, 15-45 mm long, at least the lower ones distinctly stipitate; stipes 1.5-3 mm in diameter, from very short to 15 mm long. Floral bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, 7-15 mm long, prominently striate, stramineous when dry; flowers up to 17 mm long. Sepals strongly asymmetric, mucronate, 4-8 mm long, carinate; petals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 12 mm long, white, each bearing 2 infundibuliform scales; ovary compressed; ovules obtuse, borne near the apex of the cell; berry subglobose.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic, terrestrial, and saxicolous, 120-900 m alt, Cuba, Jamaica.

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