Hoffmannia ghiesbreghtii (Lem.) Hemsl.

Hoffmannia ghiesbreghtii (Lemaire) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am Bot. 2:36. 1881.
Campylobolrys Ghiesbreghtii Lemaire, 111. Hortic. 8: pi. 279. 1861. Higginsia Ghiesbreghtii [" Gheisbechtii"] Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 5383. 1863.
A shrub 1 meter high or more, the branches stout, quadrangular, narrowly winged on the
angles, glabrous or nearly so, the internodes usually very short; leaves opposite, sessile or
almost so, oblanceolate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 23-30 cm. long, 6-9 cm. wide, acute or
abruptly acuminate, long-attenuate to the base, membranaceous, bright-green and glabrous
above, paler beneath, sometimes purplish, minutely puberulent, especially on the veins, the
lateral nerves prominulous, about 20 on each side, arcuate-divaricate ; cymes axillary, fewor
many-flowered, dense, subsessile, the flowers 4-parted, sessile or short-pedicellate; calyx and
hypanthium 2 mm. long, puberulent, the calyx-lobes minute, deltoid; corolla yellow, 6 mm.
long, puberulent outside, the lobes narrowly oblong, acute, spreading, equaling or slightly
longer than the tube ; anthers exserted.
Type locality: Described from cultivated plants that probably were of Mexican origin. Distribution: Guatemala; probablv also in the forests of southern Mexico.

Hoffmannia ghiesbreghtii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được (Lem.) Hemsl. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1881.