Malanea ursina Standl.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Malanea ursina Standl.

  • Type

    Type. Rio Vasiva, Venezuela, R. Spruce (holotype K, photo at F).

  • Description

    Description - A fragment of the leaf of the type specimen is in the herbarium at F. It shows the leaf-blade with a lower surface moderately pubescent with short appressed hairs 0.3-0.5 mm long and occasional longer hairs and with the midrib and lateral nerves of the lower surface with hirsute spreading hairs 1-1.5 mm long. The upper surface is glabrous with prominently sulcate midrib and 6 lateral nerves on each side deeply sulcate. The photo of the holotype shows an inflorescence about 5 cm long and a peduncle 1.3 cm long; the glomerules of flowers are nearly all sessile, but the lowest two are on very short axes 1-2 mm long.