This new species was found forming medium sized saxicolous groups of plants in the ‘‘Campos Rupestres’’ vegetation or grasslands on rocky soils that overlie quartzite and sandstone oucrops that form the high-altitude landscape of the Serra do Espinhac¸o range in Bahia. The difficulty in establishing morphological differences of regional Hohenbergia species typical of that environment is due to the convergence of shape and structure of leaves and leaf-rosette caused by the combination of rupicolous or saxicolous habit, oligotrophic conditions, similar sun exposure and water stress. Therefore, understanding the subtle set of morphological features that distinguish these species appears to be important in establishing the identity of the taxa involved. —SeeLeme 2010a
