Gleasonia duidana Standl.

• Authority

  Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.

• Family

  Rubiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Gleasonia duidana Standl.

• Discussion

  Type. Gleasonia duidana Standi. Bremekamp (Meded. Bot. Mus. Utrecht 141: 361-364. 1957) placed this genus in a separate subfamily Gleasonioideae on the basis of its exalbuminous seeds and large cotyledons of the embryo. He lends great weight to the character of the type of testa cells of the seeds of Gleasonia as differing fundamentally from those of the various other subfamilies of Rubiaceae.