plant an epiphyte, cespitose, flowering 150 cm tall, short caulescent; rosette broad, forming phytotelmata. leaves 93–121 cm long, coriaceous; sheath conspicuously differentiated from the blade, oblong to elliptical, 15–26 × 8.5–17 cm, white to pale brown, lepidote on both surfaces, serrulate; blade lingulate, 73–94 cm long, 8.5–13.5 cm wide at the base, 8–11.5 cm wide in the middle, green, surfaces smooth, lepidote abaxially, glabrescent adaxially, blade margin serrate, the teeth evenly distributed along the margins, hook-shaped, irregularly oriented, green to castaneous, 6.3–11 mm long, blade apex obtuse to rounded, mucronate. inflorescence central, erect to inclined; peduncle almost completely exposed out of the rosette, stout, rigid, 33–75 cm long, 7–14 mm in diameter, green, floccose, internodes between the central bracts 2.3–4 cm, internodes between the apical bracts 1.5–2.2 cm; peduncle bracts longer than the internodes, marcescent, membranaceous, nervose, light green, the central bracts erect, imbricate, lanceolate, 8–12.5 × 1–1.8 cm, sparsely floccose, entire, occasionally serrulate, apex acuminate, the apical bracts suberect, imbricate, lanceolate, 9.5–14 × 0.8–1.6 cm, sparsely floccose, entire or occasionally serrulate, apex attenuate; fertile portion of the inflorescence a panicle, conical, 39–78 cm long, 8–17.5 cm wide at the base, 1-divided or occasionally 2-divided in the lower branches, axis of the inflorescence straight, green, 35–74 cm long, 4–8 mm in diameter, floccose to sparsely floccose; primary bracts like the peduncle bracts, gradually diminishing in size towards the apex of the inflorescence, reclined to descending, marcescent, membranaceous, nervose, longer than the branches; the basal bracts lanceolate, 9–13.7(–16) × 0.8–1(–1.7) cm, light green to cream, floccose to glabrescent, entire, apex attenuate; the apical bracts lanceolate, 1.1–2.4 × 2.8–3 cm; branches of the inflorescence 43 to 52(–83) in number, polystichous; spikes ovoidal to cylindrical, 2.1–5.8 × 1–1.8 cm; stipe exposed, 19–39 mm long, 1.8–3 mm in diameter, terete, floccose to glabrescent; floral bracts gradually diminishing in size towards the apex of the spike, partially enfolding the ovaries, imbricate at the early stages of development, turning slightly divergent with the flowers at maturity, subconcave, coriaceous, ovate, 3.2–8 × 3.6–6.5 mm, green to cream, nervose, ecarinate, sparsely floccose, minutely serrulate, occasionally entire, apex acuminate, bearing a short mucro 1.5–5.8 mm long. flowers 18 to 35 per spike, polystichously arranged, suberect to divergent, 3.2–8 mm long, sessile; calyx dorsiventrally compressed; sepals basally connate, coriaceous, asymmetrical, with one of the margins much more extended than the other, triangular-ovate (excluding the extended margin), 3.5–4.7 mm × 2.6–3.6 mm, the narrow side 0.6–1.1 mm wide, the extended side 1.8–2.7 mm wide, green, yellow, or cream, surface smooth, the adaxial sepals carinate, the abaxial sepal ecarinate, floccose to glabrescent, entire, apex mucronate, mucro 1.1–2.2 mm long; corolla sub-tubular; petals free, membranaceous, spathulate, 11.2 × 3 mm, white, glabrous, entire, apically spreading, apex acute; petals* appendages two, flanking the antepetalous stamens, originating at 2.5 mm from the petal base. stamens included, the antepetalous stamens partially adnate to the petals; filament flattened, 7.3 mm long, 0.3 mm in diameter, white; anther dorsifixed, sagittate, 3.1 × 0.7 mm, white, apiculate. pistil exceeding the stamens; ovary subovoidal, dorsiventrally compressed, 3.1 mm long, 4.5 mm in diameter, green, glabrescent to sparsely floccose, placentation apically-axile, epigynous tube 0.3 mm long; style cylindrical, 11.6 mm long, white; stigma conduplicate-spiral, white, 1.3 mm long; ovules more than 30 per ovary, ovoidal, unappendaged; pollen biporate, foveolate. fruits subovoidal, dorsiventrally compressed, 9.4–9.8 mm long, 4.8–6 mm in diameter, cream, glabrous, with the sepals persistent, but not fleshy; seeds club-shaped, 2.1 × 0.7 mm, reddish.Edited from : Aguirre-Santoro et al. 2016. (protologue) A new species of Hohenbergia (Bromeliaceae) endemic to the Dolphin Head Mountains in western Jamaica .