Hohenbergia correia-araujoi
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Hohenbergia correia-araujoi
Sometimes written without hyphen or as correia arauji
| Ian Hook 11/02 |
Peter Sargent, Mossman. Photo Ken Woods. |
Hohenbergia Correia Farrveii ?
| Ian Hook 05/04, BSA show 05/04 entry, labelled as "Correia Farrveii" |
Hohenbergia correia-arauji Pereira & Moutinho, Bradea 3(12): 88,9. 1980; J. Brom. Soc. 35: 149. 1985
Plant flowering about 1.70m high.
Leaves about 15, ligulate, to 1.50m long, rosulate, forming at base a tubular water reservoir.
Sheaths ovate-oblong, 20-30cm long, densely brown-lepidote on both sides, densely spinose near the apex with dark-purple antrorse spines 4mm long.
Leaf blades linear, 6-8cm wide, darkgreen and markedly white lepidote forming irregular crossbands on both sides, subdensely spinose with 2mm long spines, apex rounded and mucronate.
Scape erect or slightly curvate, 80cm high, 10mm in diam. in life, densely white floccose, internodes 6cm long.
Scape bracts narrowly triangulate, markedly acute, membranous, white floccose on the outside, 10-12cm long, pale, imbricate, longer than the internodes.
Inflorescence 42cm long at least tripinnate, laxly pyramidal-paniculate, densely white-floccose except the petals;
primary bracts narrowly triangulate, whitish, entire, apex markedly acute but not spinose, 3-8cm long, exceeding the peduncle;
secondary branches 3-15cm long, with 2-7 spikes, peduncle 1-6cm long, becoming shorter toward the apex;
secondary bracts narrowly triangular, 22mm long, whitish;
spikes sessile, elliptic, to 3cm long, exceeding the secondary bracts;
floral bracts suborbicular, 10mm in diam., concave, green, mucronulate-spinose, equaling or exceeding the sepals.
Flowers sessile, 15mm long;
sepals almost free, asymmetric, green, 6 mm long, rounded and mucronulate at apex, the posterior obtusely carinate;
petals linear, 9mm long, yellow, with a rounded apex, bearing two denticulate scales 3mm above the base.
Filaments complanate, 1st ser. 3mm adnate to the petal, 2nd ser. free;
anther linear, 3mm long, apex mucronulate, obtuse-sagitate at base, half dorsifixed;
epigynous tube lacking;
ovary 4mm long; placentae apical;
ovules caudate.
Type. Luiz Knud Correia de Araujo no.l4, Milagres, Bahia, Brazil; flowered in cultivation 15 March 1980. Holotype HB 71.017.
This, new species is related to H. ridleyi (Baker) Mez, but is easily distinguished by irregular bands of white scales on both sides of the blades and by perfectly rounded and mucronate apex of the leaves.
Updated 16/01/24
