Hohenbergia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. It is native to the West Indies, the Yucatán Peninsula, and northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
The genus name is named after Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg, a German botanist and patron of botany who travelled to the Americas under the alias of Baron of Hohenberg. This genus has two recognized subgenera: the type subgenus and Wittmackiopsis Mez. Recent DNA studies have shown the two subgenera are not monophyletic, and the species of subg. Wittmackiopsis have been transferred to the resurrected genus Wittmackia.
Species 53 species are accepted. Hohenbergia aechmeoides Leme - Paraíba Hohenbergia amargosensis – Bahia Hohenbergia andina Betancur - Colombia (Antioquia) Hohenbergia arcuata Leme & M.Machado - Bahia Hohenbergia augusta (Vellozo) E. Morren - southeastern Brazil from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina Hohenbergia barbarespina Leme & Fraga - Bahia Hohenbergia belemii L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia Hohenbergia blanchetii (Baker) E. Morren ex Mez - eastern Brazil from Pernambuco to Espírito Santo Hohenbergia brachycephala L.B. Smith - Bahia Hohenbergia burle-marxii Leme & W. Till - Bahia Hohenbergia capitata Schult. & Schult.f. - eastern Brazil from Bahia to Espírito Santo Hohenbergia castellanosii L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia Hohenbergia catingae Ule eastern Brazil (Minas Gerais, Bahia, Pernambuco, and Paraíba) Hohenbergia conquistensis Leme - Bahia Hohenbergia correia-araujoi E. Pereira & Moutinho - Bahia Hohenbergia densa – Rio Grande do Norte Hohenbergia edmundoi L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia Hohenbergia eriantha (Brongniart ex Baker) Mez - Pernambuco Hohenbergia estevesii E. Pereira & Moutinho - Bahia Hohenbergia flava Leme & Paula - Bahia Hohenbergia halutheriana – Bahia Hohenbergia hatschbachii Leme - Bahia Hohenbergia horrida – northeastern Brazil Hohenbergia humilis L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia Hohenbergia igatuensis Leme - Bahia Hohenbergia isepponae – Pernambuco Hohenbergia itamarajuensis Leme & Baracho - Bahia Hohenbergia ituberaensis – Bahia Hohenbergia lanata E. Pereira & Moutinho - Bahia Hohenbergia lativaginata – Bahia Hohenbergia lemei H. Luther & K. Norton - Bahia Hohenbergia leopoldo-horstii E. Gross, Rauh & Leme - Bahia Hohenbergia littoralis L.B. Smith - Bahia Hohenbergia loredanoana Leme & L.Kollmann - Minas Gerais Hohenbergia magnispina Leme - Bahia Hohenbergia membranostrobilus Mez - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro Hohenbergia minor L.B. Smith - Bahia Hohenbergia mutabilis Leme & L.Kollmann - Espírito Santo Hohenbergia nidularioides – Bahia Hohenbergia oxoniensis W. Weber - eastern Brazil Hohenbergia pabstii L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia, Minas Gerais Hohenbergia pennae E. Pereira - Bahia Hohenbergia reconcavensis Leme & Fraga - Bahia Hohenbergia ridleyi (Baker) Mez - Paraíba, Pernambuco Hohenbergia rosea L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia Hohenbergia salzmannii (Baker) E. Morren ex Mez - Bahia Hohenbergia sandrae Leme - Bahia Hohenbergia stellata Schult. & Schult.f. - Trinidad-Tobago, Martinique?, Netherlands Antilles, Venezuela, Alagoas, Bahia, Piauí Hohenbergia undulatifolia Leme & H. Luther - Bahia Hohenbergia utriculosa Ule - Bahia Hohenbergia vestita L.B. Smith - Bahia Hohenbergia viridirubra – Bahia Hohenbergia ymboreorum – Bahia
Cultivars Hohenbergia 'Maria Valentina'
References
External links photos US Department of Agriculture Article ITIS Report on Hohenbergia