Hohenbergia littoralis L.B.Sm.
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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. Foster 46 (holotype, GH; isotype, R), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 29 May 1939.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 1 m high. Leaves few in a cylindric rosette, over 6 dm long, covered with minute pale appressed scales on both sides; sheaths very ample; blades ligulate, broadly acute or rounded, apiculate, 10 cm wide, rather densely serrulate, purple toward apex, the apex a stout pungent brown mucro. Scape erect, slender, white-flocculose at anthesis; scape-bracts erect, the lower half as long as the internodes, lanceolate, acuminate, covered with pale appressed scales. Inflorescence contracted, few-branched, or rarely simple, white-flocculose; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, shorter than the spikes or equaling the lowest; spikes stout-ellipsoid, 35-45 mm long. Floral bracts spreading, broadly ovate, acuminate, mucronate, strongly nerved, the lowest to 15 mm long, about equaling the sepals. Sepals ovate, asymmetric, 9-11 mm long including the stout mucro; epigynous tube short.
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Distribution
Type area.
Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America|