Neea amplifolia Donn. Smith

Neea amplifolia Dorm. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 61: 386. 1916
Shrub, 0.5-1 meter high, the young branches stout, ferrugino-puberulent or glabrate, the
internodes elongate; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-3 cm. long, ferrugino-puberulent, the blades obovate, oval, or oval-elliptic, 19-27 cm. long, 8-9 cm. wide, broadest at or sometimes above the middle, obtuse or cuneate at the base, abruptly cuspidate-acuminate or attenuate at the apex, thin, deep-green, concolorous, sparsely puberulent or glabrate above, copiously shortvillous beneath with fulvous hairs, the lateral veins prominent, arcuate ascending; peduncles of the staminate cymes axillary, 6-12 cm. long, very slender, the cymes loosely many-flowered, 4.5-7 cm. long, the branches divaricate, ferrugino-puberulent, the flowers on pedicels 1-3 mm. long, the bractlets ovate, 2 mm. long; staminate perianth tubular, 10-12 mm. long, constricted in the throat, puberulent, 5-dentate, the teeth triangular, acute; stamens 8, the longer filaments 5 mm. long, the anthers 1 mm. long; fruit not known.
Typb locality: In forests along the Rio Hondo near Madre de Dios, Com area de L,im6n, Costa Rica, at an altitude of 200 meters. Distribution: Costa Rica.

Neea acuminatissima is a species of plant in the Nyctaginaceae family. It is found in Guatemala and Honduras.

Neea acuminatissima est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Nyctaginaceae.