Psychotria paramorum Standl.

• Authority

  Maguire, Bassett. 1972. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part IX. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 1-832.

• Family

  Rubiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Psychotria paramorum Standl.

• Type

  Type. Paramo de Chauiro, Cordillera Occidental, Dept. Bolívar, Colombia, alt 2800-3100 m, 24 Feb 1918, Francis W. Pennell 4342.

• Discussion

  According to the labels of the collections thus far examined, this is a shrub like P. crassa Bth. It differs from the latter in the shorter, triangular, less tapering calyx lobes, which are ciliolate at the apex and on the margins, the absence of dorsal corniculate appendages of the corolla lobes, and much more strongly nerved leaf blades with elevated lateral nerves benath.