Chomelia spinosa Jacq.

Chomelia spinosa Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 12. 1760; Sel. Stirp
Am. 18. 1763.
Ixora spinosa Lam. Encyc. 3: 344. 1789.
Guettarda armata Bartl.; DC. Prodr. 4: 457. 1830.
Chomelia hi i pes Benth.; Oerst. Vidensk Meddel. 1852: 41. 1852.
linafilipes Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 277. 1891. Caruelina spinosa Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 277. 1891.
Guettarda costaricensis K. Schumann; Tonduz, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 7; hyponym. 1895. Anisomeris Purpusii Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 70. 1914. Chomelia brachyloba Standlev. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 136. 1916.
elia Purpusii Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 52: 138. 1925.
merit brachyloba Rusby. Bull. Torrey Club 52: 142. 1925.
A shrub or tree, sometimes as much as 9 meters high, the branches stout or slender, often rigid, brown or reddish-brown, conspicuously lenticellate, pilose when young with mostly appressed, whitish or fulvous hairs, armed in the axils with stout spines 0.6-2.5 cm. long; stipules 4-8 mm. long, subulate-acuminate from a triangular base, thin, sparsely pilose; leaves often crowded on short lateral branches, the petioles slender, 3-12 mm. long, short-pilose, the blades variable in outline, ovate-orbicular to oval, elliptic, or oblong-ovate, 3.5-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the apex, usually abruptly short-acuminate, broadly rounded to acute at the base, firm-membranaceous, bright-green above and usually sublustrous, thinly pilose, somewhat paler beneath, pilose, especially along the nerves, with appressed or spreading hairs, the venation prominent, the lateral nerves 6-8 on each side, usually arcuate; cymes fewflowered, the very slender peduncles 1.5-3.5 cm. long, shortly appressed-pilose, the flowers sessile or subsessile, the bractlets small, subulate; calyx and hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, cylindric, appressed-pilose, the calyx-lobes lanceolate or triangularsubulate, unequal, half as long as the hypanthium or shorter, rarely elongate; corolla yellowish-white, salverform, sericeous outside, the slender tube 12-22 mm. long, the lobes linear-lanceolate, 4—6 mm. long, each with a slender elongate hornlike appendage at or just below the apex, the throat glabrous; fruit black at maturity and juicy, oval-oblong, 9-12 mm. long, sparsely strigillose; seeds brown.
Tvpk locality: Near Cartagena, Colombia.
Distribution: Oaxaea and Chiapas, along the Pacific coast of Central America to Panama; Colombia and Venezuela to northern Brazil; growing chiefly in dry thickets or open forest.

Chomelia spinosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Jacq. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1763.