Hohenbergia castellanosii
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Hohenbergia castellanosii
Mitch Jones 02/25, variegated
Hohenbergia castellanosii L. B. Smith & Read, Phytologia 33: 437, pl. 2, figs. F-G. 1976.
Desc from S&D Plant flowering over 1.1 m high. Leaf 9 dm long, laxly and inconspicuously lepidote throughout; sheath elliptic, ample, 6 dm long, dark castaneous and entire toward base, green and laxly serrate toward apex with dark retrorse spines 2 mm long; blade ligulate, broadly rounded and spinose-apiculate, 8 cm wide. Scape erect, 9 mm wide, white-lanate; scape-bracts erect, ovate, pungent-apiculate, red, densely white-lepidote becoming more or less glabrous, the lower shorter than the internodes, the upper imbricate. Inflorescence sublaxly cylindric, 2-pinnate with sessile spikes, 3 dm long, soon glabrous; axis slender, straight; primary bracts broadly ovate, acuminate to a slender spine, much shorter than the axillary spikes; spikes few-flowered, suborbicular, 25 mm long. Floral bracts ovate, subtruncate, mucronulate, to 13 mm long, much exceeded by the sepals, nerved when dry; flowers suberect. Sepals slightly asymmetric, narrowly subelliptic, mucronulate, 10 mm long, the lateral ones and the ovary broadly alate; petals bearing 2 highly adnate fimbriate appendages. Type. Castellanos 27007 (holotype, HB; photo US), Marau to Muta, Bahia, Brazil, 13 Dec 1967. Distribution. Known from the type collection only.
