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Hohenbergia stellata; photograph (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2022-11-26

Hohenbergia stellata Schult. & Schult.f.

Bromeliaceae · Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad-Tobago +2

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
20.0°C
Record low 18.5 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Jan, Feb, Mar and Dec at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,599mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
25–40DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, March to August and November (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

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.).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hohenbergia stellata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,208 mm of 1,607 mm) falls in March to August and November. The temperature curve is flat, 3.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

1,607 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,208 mm of it March to August and November. Wettest month June at 220 mm, driest month January at 67 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,045 mm to 2,045 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,599 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,607 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 40 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 20.0 °C, the absolute minimum 18.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.9 °C in August (across the grid cells of the range 18.2 °C to 22.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.1 °C in February and March (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 20.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 64 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -12 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Hohenbergia stellata through the yearWarmest months January, February, March and December, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month August, mean nightly low 20.9 °C; 1,607 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.15°20°25°30°35°33.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER18.5° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 25–40RH 64–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 10 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 26–3128 / 25–3128 / 26–3127 / 26–2926 / 25–2825 / 25–2725 / 24–2625 / 24–2626 / 25–2727 / 26–2927 / 27–3028 / 26–30
Night °C24 / 20–2524 / 20–2524 / 20–2524 / 20–2523 / 20–2522 / 20–2421 / 19–2321 / 18–2322 / 19–2323 / 19–2423 / 20–2424 / 20–25
Rain mm67 / 52–10280 / 34–137127 / 16–186218 / 71–273207 / 121–281220 / 111–233190 / 140–214137 / 114–15899 / 78–13082 / 41–129109 / 28–14371 / 47–123
DLI40 / 35–4239 / 37–4138 / 35–3932 / 31–3428 / 27–3225 / 24–3226 / 25–3330 / 28–3434 / 33–3737 / 35–4039 / 32–4139 / 33–41
RH %64 / 62–6665 / 62–6666 / 63–6767 / 65–6967 / 65–7167 / 64–7266 / 63–7165 / 62–7065 / 62–6864 / 62–6764 / 62–6764 / 62–66
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 10 grid cells holding the 15 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2051:2838 (-12.575, -38.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 18.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 20.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 10 distinct grid cells holding 15 of the 15 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2051:2838 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -12.50_-38.125, lapse-corrected -12 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 41 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNetherlands Antilles, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Brazil Northeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-12.772, -38.777 · in the densest population, 64 records (71% of those in range)
Doubtfully present inWindward Is. · recorded by WCVP as doubtfully present: not part of the range records are tested against
Kew's description“perennial or epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 90 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 15 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 78 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 7 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 75 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 90 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (6).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Syagrus schizophylla Syagrus schizophylla Arikury palm Photo: CC0, author not statedPassiflora watsoniana Passiflora watsoniana Passifloraceae Photo: CC BY, Fabricio Carvalho da SilvaEncyclia dichroma Encyclia dichroma Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Issao ShinobeSinningia barbata Sinningia barbata Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil Paepalanthus tortilis Eriocaulaceae Karawata multiflora Karawata multiflora Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens Riella

Other Hohenbergia 7 in the reference

Hohenbergia augusta Hohenbergia augusta Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Donald Davesne Hohenbergia burle-marxii Bromeliaceae Hohenbergia castellanosii Hohenbergia castellanosii Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesHohenbergia catingae Hohenbergia catingae Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabricio Carvalho da SilvaHohenbergia correia-araujoi Hohenbergia correia-araujoi Bromeliaceae Photo: Public domain, StickpenHohenbergia leopoldo-horstii Hohenbergia leopoldo-horstii Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Renato BandeiraHohenbergia ridleyi Hohenbergia ridleyi Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Carlos Henrique

Names & registers

Also known as Aechmea glomerata var. pallida; Aechmea longisepala; Aechmea oligosepala; Aechmea oligosphaera; Hohenbergia erythrostachya and 5 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
Schult. & Schult.f.
Native to
Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela +1
Wild records
90 in range · 78 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -12.50_-38.125, lapse-corrected -12 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 27 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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