Leme & Baracho 1998 (Article) Hohenbergia

A new species of Hohenbergia from Bahia

Author(s):—E.M.C. Leme & G.S. Baracho

Publication:—Bromélia; revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Bromélias 5: 78-80. (1998)

Abstract:—The first time we saw and documented a blooming specimen of this new species was a plant that bloomed in the Roberto Burle Marx collection. But, the lack of precise data on the origin of the specimen discouraged us from publishing it as a new taxon. Just recently we have verified that we had already collected this species some years ago, in a remnant of the Atlantic forest, preserved to provide shade for a cocoa plantation close to Itamarajñ, in Bahia. The small immature specimen brought to Rio at that time did not adapt to growing conditions and after several problems finally bloomed in 1997, when we saw that it was the same species existing in the collection of the late Burle Marx.
An epiphyte, H. itarnarajuensis shows morphological affinity with H. pabstii, from which it differs in its wider leaf blades with densely spinose margins, bipinnate to tripinnate inflorescence, greenish yellow, attenuate-acuminate floral bracts, and longer sepals.

Published names (1):

Hohenbergia itamarajuensis