Pleuropetalum pleiogynum (Kuntze) Standl.

Celosia pleiogyna Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 541. 1891
Low shrub; branches slender, smooth, glabrous; petioles 6-15 mm. long, slender; leafblades lance-oblong, symmetric, 5.5-9 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate at the apex, rounded to acute at the base, glabrous, deep yellowish-green, inconspicuously nerved ; flowers sessile, in loose terminal or axillary panicles composed of loosely flowered spikes 1-4 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter; bracts one fourth as long as the sepals, rounded-ovate, obtuse, carinate; sepals 5 mm. long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, finely parallel-nerved, dark-brown; stamens not exceeding the ovary, the sinuses between the filaments obtuse; style very short, stout, much exceeded by the 4 or 5 elongate stigmas; utricle ovoid, shorter than the sepals.
Type locality: Eastern Costa Rica. Distribution: Eastern Costa Rica.