Hohenbergia urbaniana Mez

Hohenbergia urbaniana Mez, Symb. Ant. 2: 253. 1900
Leaves usually over 1 m. long; sheaths distinct, elliptic, brown, densely punctulate with minute brown scales; blades 10 cm. wide, rounded-apiculate, rigid, spinulose with brown teeth 2 mm. long, glabrous above, densely pale-lepidote below; scape shorter than the leaves, stout, white-floccose but soon becoming glabrous; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, elliptic, acute, entire, chartaceous; inflorescence densely bipinnate with about 9 spikes; axis glabrous, angled, sulcate; primary bracts ovate, entire, shorter than the spikes; spikes erect or ascending, cylindric, about 8 era. long or sometimes twice as much, obtuse or acute, glabrous, the lower ones with short, strongly complanate stalks, the upper ones sessile and digitately glomerate; floral bracts erect, imbricate, broadly ovate, convex, short-mucronate, about 20 mra. long, shiny, prominently nerved near the margins and apex; flowers much compressed, distinctly exceeding the bracts; sepals lanceolate, asymmetric, short-mucronate, 10 mm. long, carinate, acute, rigidly coriaceous; petals linear-lanceolate, acute, 15 mm. long, each bearing 2 infundibuliform scales, these much produced upward along the petals; ovules obtuse; berry scarcely enlarged from the ovary; seeds small, clavate, obscurely striate.
Typb locality: Vicinity of New Green, Manchester, Jamaica, altitude 660 meters. Distribution: Jamaica.

Hohenbergia urbaniana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bromeliaceae. Loài này được Mez mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1900.