Guettarda ovalifolia Urb.

Guettarda ovalifolia Urban, vSymb. Ant. 1: 432. 1899
A tree 8-10 meters high, the branches reddish-brown or blackish, lenticellate, the branchlets stout, compressed, sparsely pilose with fulvous spreading hairs, the internodes short; stipules triangular-acuminate, 3-5 mm. long, densely appressed-pilose; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 0.7-2 cm. long, fulvous-hirtellous, the blades oval, broadly oval, ovate-oval, or broadly obovate, 5-13.5 cm. long, 3-9 cm. wide, broadly rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded at the apex, sometimes apiculate, chartaceous or coriaceous, green above, usually lustrous, puberulent along the subimpressed costa, the lateral nerves prominulous, the veins prominentreticulate, beneath paler, short-pilose along the prominent costa, the lateral nerves prominent, 7 or 8 on each side, subarcuate, the margin plane or recurved; cymes 5-15-flowered, subcapitate, or in age with stout subelongate branches, the peduncles slender, 3-10 cm. long, the flowers sessile, the bractlets deltoid, 1-2 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium fulvous-tomentose, the hypanthium 1 mm. long, the calyx 2-2.5 mm. long, truncate; corolla white, tinged with pink outside, the tube 12-13 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside, the lobes 5 or 6, obovate, less than half as long as the tube; anthers 2 mm. long; style sparsely short-pilose; ovary 4— 6-celled; fruit oval or subglobose, 6-7 mm. long, yellowish-tomentulose.
Type locality: Near Cayey, Porto Rico. Distribution: Porto Rico.

Guettarda ovalifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Urb. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1899.