Hohenbergia stellata Schult. & Schult. fil.

Hohenbergia stellata Schultes, in R. & .S. ,Syst Veg. 7: 1251. 1830.
Hohenbergia erythrostachys Brongn. Ann. Imp. Soc. Hort. 45: July 1854; Rev. Hortic. IV. 4: 244.
1855. Pironneava roseo-caerulea K. Koch, Wochenschr. GSrtn. 4: 189. 1861. Aechmea glomerala Hook. f. Bot. Mag. pi. 5668. excl. syn. 1887. Pironneava Morreniana Regel, Gartenflora 23: 257. 1874. Aechmea oligosphaera Baker, Handb. Bromel. 48. 1889. Aechmea longisepala Baker, Handb. Broracl. 48. 1889. Hohenbergia oligosphaera Mez. in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 124. 1896. >4«Amfa ofigosepaia Durand & Jacks. Ind. Kcw. Suppl. 1: 12. 1902. Krror.
Plant often 1 m. high; leaves many in a crateriform rosette, 7-1 1 dm. long, firm, minutely pale-appresscd-lepidote ; sheaths large, broadly elliptic; blades ligulate, abruptly acute or obtuse, apiculate, 75 mm. wide, laxly serrate, the teeth up to 3.5 mm. long; scape erect, stout; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, ovate, membranaceous, red or stramineous; inflorescence equaling or exceeding the leaves, tripinnate, dense toward the apex, interrupted below; axes flocculose near the nodes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, spreading or reflexcd, shorter than the axillary branches; upper branches simple, very short, the lower up to 4 cm. hmg with 2 or 3 spikes fasciculate at the end; spikes subglolx;sc, 4 cm. long; floral bracts with suborliicular or broadly ovate base contracted into a long acuminate ai>cx, squarrosc, 2-3 cm. long, ol)scurcly denticulate, coriaceous, prominently nerved, purple when fresh; sepals trianguhu-, acute, carinate, glabrous, 15-18 mm. long, the posterior ones distinctly longer than the anterior; petals 2 cm. long, bearing 2 elongate scales, the blade elliptic, acute, violet-purple; anthers acute; ovary strongly compressed, glabrous.
Type ux:alitv: State of Bahia, Brazil.
Distribution: Martinique; also in Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, and northern Itrozil.

Hohenbergia stellata is a perennial species of the genus Hohenbergia. It is native to Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Venezuela, and northeastern Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Piauí etc.).

Hohenbergia stellata exhibits sharp spines in its inflorescence. Flowers are purple-red and are present along the plant's strong stem, which grows up to 100 cm tall. In Brazil this plant forms a microhabitat of the tarantula Pachistopelma bromelicola.