Pittoniotis trichantha Griseb.

Pittoniotis trichantha Griseb. Bonplandia 6: 8. 1858
Anlirrhoea trichantha Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 42. 1881.
A small tree, sometimes 7 meters high, with a trunk 25 cm. in diameter, the bark lightgray, rather smooth, the branches stout, dark reddish-brown, the branchlets thick, densely leafy, densely short-pilose with grayish, appressed or ascending hairs; stipules narrowly or broadly triangular, 5-11 mm. long, acuminate or attenuate, finely appressed-pilose outside, sericeous within, usually persistent; petioles slender, 0.6-3 cm. long, puberulent or short-pilose; leaf -blades elliptic-oblong, oval-elliptic, oval, broadly ovate, or rhombic-orbicular, 5.5-14.5 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. wide, abruptly short-acuminate, rounded to acuminate at the base, green above, at first appressed-pilose with short stiff hairs, glabrate in age, beneath paler, finely grayishsericeous, usually short-pilose on the nerves, the costa and lateral nerves prominent, the latter 5-9 on each side, ascending at an acute angle, the transverse veins prominent and laxly reticulate, the margin plane; panicles laxly branched, 3-7 cm. broad or larger, the ultimate branches short or elongate, densely short-pilose, the slender peduncles 2.5-8 cm. long; calyx and hypanthium 1.3 mm. long, densely pilose with short sordid hairs, the calyx-lobes deltoid, acute or acutish; corolla 4—5 mm. long, loosely tomentose outside, white, the lobes equaling or longer than the tube, tomentulose within; anthers 1.5-2 mm. long; fruit 5-6 mm. long, 3 mm. thick, sparsely appressed-pilose.
Type locality: Panama.
Distribution: In forest, Panama and northern coast of Colombia.

Pittoniotis trichantha là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Griseb. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1858.