Guettarda brevinodis Urb.

Guettarda brevinodis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 404. 1912
Guettarda membranacea Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 131, in part. 1866. Not G. membranacea Sw. 1788.
A shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 meters high, the branches slender, terete, reddish-brown or grayish, very sparsely lenticellate, the branchlets subcompressed, densely short-pilose with spreading fulvous hairs, the internodes short; stipules ovate, 3 mm. long, acute, appressed-pilose, caducous; leaves opposite, the slender petioles 4-14 mm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf -blades ovate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4—9.5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute or obtuse, rounded or obtuse at the base, firm-membranaceous, bright-green above, scaberulous, usually somewhat bullate, the venation prominent but depressed, paler beneath, densely short-pilose with spreading hairs, the venation very prominent, the lateral nerves slender, 10-12 on each side, arcuateascending at an angle of 50-60 degrees, the veins pale, prominently and closely reticulate, the margin plane or recurved; peduncles 1.5-2.5 cm. long, slender, short-pilose, the cymes once or twice bifid, 3-9-flowered, with .short branches, the flov/ers sessile, the bractlets linearsubulate, 2 mm. long; calyx 2 mm. long, truncate or subbilobatc, tomentulose; corolla white, the tube densely and minutely retrorse-i)ilose; ovary 3-4-cclled.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribl'Tion: Limestone hillsides, Pinar del Kio and Oriente, Cuba.

Guettarda brevinodis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Urb. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1912.