Tabernaemontana glabra (Benth.) A. O. Simões & M. E. Endress

Stemmadenia glabra Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 124. 1845
Shrub or small tree, 2-10 m. tall, essentially glabrous throughout; leaves firmly membranaceous, oblong-elliptic to obovateelliptic, 14-20 cm. long, 7-8 cm. broad, obtuse to shortly subcaudateacuminate, obtuse at the base, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; infiorescence bearing 1-4 handsome cream-colored flowers; pedicels 9-13 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute to obtusish, 15-25 mm. long; corolla infundibuliform, the tube proper 20-25 mm. long, about 4 mm. in diameter at the base, the throat broadly conic, 18-20 mm. long, about 13 mm. in diameter at the orifice, the lobes obliquely obovate, spreading, 12-18 mm. long; follicles obovoid-subreniform, 4.5-5 cm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm. broad, longitudinally striate and minutely
verrucose.
Type locality: Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras.
Distribution: Honduras and Salvador to Costa Rica.

Tabernaemontana glabra is an evergreen tree from the family Apocynaceae, native to Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia). It is similar to Tabernaemontana donnell-smithii, except that its leaves and flowers are larger and its fruit is smaller.