See text 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).

[1] 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.

[2] 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.