Hohenbergia eriostachya Mez

Hohenbergia eriostachya Mez, Symb. Ant. 2: 255. 1900
Flowering plant at least 75 cm. high; leaves about I m. long; sheaths elllplic-ovale, large, densely lepidote with very minute immersed brown scales, brown; blades rounded with a broad apiculate summit, 10 cm. wide, densely pale-appressed-lepidote throughout but especially below, armed with dark spines 3 mm. long but decreasing in size toward the leaf-apex; scape erect, elongate but much shorter than the leaves, 4-5 mm. in diameter, sulcate, soon glabrous; scape-bracts ovate, acute, chartaceous, the upper shorter than the internodes; inflorescence bipinnate with 20-30 spikes; primary bracts very narrowly triangular, mostly shorter than the stipes, entire; spikes all distinctly stipitate, broadly ellipsoid, 2 cm. long, the lower about the length of their stipes, the upper distinctly longer, densely tomentose with smoky-ferruginous scales; floral bracts erect, broadly ovate, obtuse, short-mucronate, II mm. long, exceeded by the sepals, 12 mm. wide, broadly convex, striate toward the apex; flowers strongly compressed; sepals strongly asymmetric, emarginate, mucronate, 5 mm. long, even, rigid, free; petals lancelinear, acute, 8 nun. long, each bearing 2 thick scales extending for most of their length and with a verjnarrow free margin; ovules obtuse.
Type locality: Between Lancaster and Moody's Gap, Jamaica, altitude 750 meters. Distribution: Jamaica.

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