Guettarda clarensis Britton

Guettarda clarensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 510. 1915
A shrub, the stout branches terete, the young branchlets densely pilose with long brown subappressed hairs, the internodes short; stipules ovate, 5 mm. long, acute, pilose, deciduous; leaves mostly borne on short stout lateral branchlets, the stout petioles 1 mm. long, pilose; leaf-blades oblong, 2.5 cm. long or shorter, 8-14 mm. wide, obtuse, subcordate at the base, rigid-coriaceous, loosely pilose above when young but soon glabrate, densely and minutely whitish-pilose beneath, long-pilose along the costa with brown appressed hairs, prominently and closely reticulate-veined; flowers fragrant, axillary, solitary, sessile; calyx and hypanthium 5 mm. long, appressed-pilose, the bread calyx-lobes acutish, .«horter than the hypanthium ; corolla white, 1 cm. lonj?, the stout UiIkduiisely a|)i)rcssf(l-i)ilof e with white hairs, the lobes oblong or obovale, obtuse or rounded at the apex, almost as lon^ as the tube, Khibnjus within; style cxserted, pilose.
Type locai-ity: Palm barren, Santa Clara. Cuba. Distribution: Santa Clara, Cuba.

Guettarda clarensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Britton mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1915.