Interesting, the Flickr page has all the words in Portuguese. :P

Can you tell me if the upper leaves are smooth or if they have any bumps?

If they continue to grow upward, I'd lean toward H. reinwardtii.

I'll wait till I hear about the leaves before going any further. =)

Reinwardtii tends to be more densely leaved than coarctata, so I suspect reinwardtii is what you have. Definitely not attenuata or fasciata.

Ro and madabouteu,

Thank you--really appreciate your input. It feel so good to eliminate a few choices.

Rosemarie wrote "Can you tell me if the upper leaves are smooth or if they have any bumps?"

Not exactly sure what you mean by this, Ro--if you are referring to the inside/front surface of the leaves, then yes. I pried open a cluster and found that each leaf had a few bumps scattered willy-nilly on the inner surfaces.

If you are referring to the outside of the leaves, then yes, the tips are studded with bumps, below the bumps there are raised latitudinal lines/dashes.
Hope this makes sense!

I'm in agreement with madabouteu. Although H. fasciata does not usually have its leaves tightened up to the stems like that, I wanted to be sure. They grow on elongated stems (unlike H. attenuata). If the upper leaf surface had been free of tubercles--smooth--then I would've leaned toward H. fasciata.

H. coarctata & H. reinwardtii have forms that look very much alike (suggesting they really might be just one species). I'm going to say it looks most like H. reinwardtii 'Zebrina', with the bands on the lower leaves instead of dots.

You made perfect sense...descriptive words that paint a picture, even though we had photos to see! Thanks!

Rosemarie
Re: "Can you tell me if the upper leaves are smooth or if they have any bumps?"

I looked at mine & found just few tiny dots/bumps on inside of the leaves, is this what you mean?
(Hope you can see enough from this photo.)
They are not really scattered thou, more in the line down the centre of the leave.

Rina

This post was edited by rina_ on Mon, Feb 25, 13 at 16:24

Rina, yes, that's what I mean & I can see them. Usually, I'd only ask this of plants with rosettes whose leaves are laid out more, as attenuata & fasciata are...in order to tell the difference. But with your plant, it would be a question of whether it's a coarctata type or reinwardtii type. I'd say yours looks like H. coarctata v. tenuis, but I could easily be wrong. :P