Guettarda psiloclada Urb.

Guettarda psiloclada Urban, Ark. Bot. ZOA^: 55. 1926
A shrub with slender branches, the young branchlets compressed, glabrate, with internodes 1-2 cm. long, the older branches terete, blackish; stipules triangular or triangular-lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, acute or long-acuminate, glabrate; leaves opposite, the rather slender petioles 0.7-2 cm. long, densely short-pilose with spreading hairs; leaf-blades oblong-elliptic, 6-1 1 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, obtuse or acute, rounded or obtuse at the base, pergamentaceous, olivaceous and dull above, very sparsely and minutely pilose, slightly scaberulous, the venation prominulous and closely reticulate, beneath slightly paler, rather densely pilose with short, spreading or subappressed hairs, the slender costa elevated, the lateral nerves 8-11 on each side, divergent at an angle of about 60 degrees, arcuate, the veins prominulous and closely reticulate, the margin plane; inflorescences axillary, on slender peduncles 3-10 cm. long, usually twice cymosely divided, with 15 or fewer flowers, the branches 10-18 mm. long, the bracts triangular or short-ovate, short-acuminate, 2 mm. long; calyx short-tubular, truncate, 2 mm. long; fruit obovoid-globose, 6 mm. long, 4.5 mm. thick, 3or 4-celled, densely and minutely tomentulose.
Type locality: Near Mirbalais, Departement d'Artibonite, Haiti, altitude 150 meters, on hillsides.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Guettarda psiloclada là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Urb. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1926.