Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anisomeris recordii (Standley)
Chomelia Recordii Standley. Trop. Woods 7: 9. 1926. Chomelia Englesingii Standley. Trop. Woods 16: 45. 1928. Anisomeris Englesingii Standley, Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 8: 360. 1931.
A small unarmed tree, the branchlets slender, terete, grayish, hirtellous or glabrate, with short internodes; stipules 2.5-5 mm. long, triangular or ovate, acuminate or cuspidate, appressed-pilose; petioles 2-3 mm. long, hirtellous; leaf-blades broadly ovate or ovate elliptic, 3-8.5 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, obtuse or abruptly acute, with obtuse tip, rounded or obtuse at the base, green above, sparsely pilose along the costa, elsewhere glabrous, the costa and nerves impressed, beneath slightly paler, copiously short-pilose with spreading or appressed hairs, the lateral nerves about 6 pairs, arcuate ; flowers clustered and sessile at the ends of the branches ; calyx and hypanthium 5-6 mm. long, tubular-campanulate, densely pilose with long appressed white hairs, the calyx-lobes oblong-linear, equaling the hypanthium; corolla white, densely pilose-sericeous with white hairs, the very slender tube 2 cm. long, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 4 mm. long, sericeous outside, glabrous within.
Type locality: In high forest between Los Andes and Entre Rlos, lower Rio Motagua V
Guatemala.
Distribution: In deep forest, along the Atlantic coast, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY