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Comprehensive Description

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Hoffmannia inamoena Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 18: 179
1928.
A simple erect shrub 1—1.5 meters high, the stems stout, subterete, with short or elongate internodes, the young stems densely and minutely puberulent; stipules ovate, 1.5 mm. long, caducous; leaves opposite, membranaceous, the slender petioles 1-4.5 cm. long, densely puberulent; leaf-blades pale when dried, chiefly elliptic, sometimes ovate-elliptic, rarely oblong-ovate, 8-20 cm. long, 3.5-10 cm. wide, abruptly acute or acuminate, rarely long-acuminate, with acute or obtuse, often falcate tip, at base obtuse to rounded and abruptly long-decurrent, glabrous above, beneath paler, densely and minutely puberulent on the nerves and sometimes, at least when young, over the whole surface, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral nerves slender, about 16 pairs, divaricate, usually arcuate, anastomosing to form a distinct collective nerve close to the margin, the ultimate veins prominulous and closely reticulate ; flowers fasciculate in the leaf-axils or in sessile or short-pedunculate, 2-4-flowered cymes, the pedicels in fruit 1-4 mm. long, shortvillous; calyx-lobes 4, triangular-oblong, 1-2 mm. long, obtuse, short-villous; fruit subglobose, 6-7 mm. long, white, juicy, copiously villous; seeds minute, dark-brown, coarsely and deeply foveolate.
Type locality: In wet forest at Los Ayotes, near Tilaran, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, altitude 600 meters.
Distribution: Wet mountain forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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