Hohenbergia catingae Ule

Literature references:

Baensch & Baensch 1994: 110* Bot. Jahrb.: 40:pl.5 Bromelia: 4(2):26 Bromtravels (Web) FCBS (Web) J. Bromeliad Soc.: 11:76b 32:102 50:11b: 11:77b* Leme & Marigo 1993: 116 No picture known Oliva-Esteve 2002: 48 Sato 2016: 11-13: 13* Sato 2017: 135 Siqueira & Leme 2006: 292,410h Smith & Downs 1979: 1739: 1740*: 1740*: 1740*: 1740* U.S. Nat. Herb.

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Comments:

• Key to Varieties of Hohenbergia catingae
  1. Inflorescence sub cylindric with short basal branches; mucro of the sepals to 1 mm long; scape-bracts imbricate. catingae.
  1. Inflorescence pyramidal with long basal branches.
  2. Apex of the wing nearly or quite level with the apex of the sepal itself, not greatly extended vertically.
  3. Scape-bracts imbricate; spikes ellipsoid to short-cylindric.
  4. Floral bracts erect or suberect; sepals apiculate to short-mucronate. elongata.
  4. Floral bracts spreading and long-mucronate, making the spike bur-like; sepals with terminal mucro to 3.5 mm long horrida. now species in own right
  3. Scape-bracts shorter than the internodes; spikes ovoid. eximbricata.
  2. Apex of the wing produced vertically well above the apex of the sepal proper; spikes cylindric, to 9 cm long. extensa. —See Smith & Downs 1979