Hohenbergia gnetacea 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. Morren Hortus s n (holotype, LG n v), country unknown, given as probably Brazil.
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Description
Description - Leaves unknown. Scape stout, strongly angled, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, remote, broadly ovate, acute, subglabrous. Inflorescence laxly bipinnate; primary bracts subspreading, broadly triangular, about 3 cm long, equaling or exceeding the axillary spikes, glabrous; spikes remote, sessile, suberect, slenderly ovoid, acute, to 25 mm long. Floral bracts suborbicular, obtuse, minutely apiculate, about 10 mm long, equaling the sepals, strongly convex, rigid, glabrous; flowers strongly compressed. Sepals triangular-ovate, acute, minutely mucronate, asymmetric, wing-carinate, 6 mm long, free; ovary 4 mm long; ovules borne near the top of the cell.
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Discussion
Note. Hohenbergia gnetacea is more probably from Jamaica because it is doubtfully distinct from H. polycephala (Baker) Mez.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Brazil South America|