Psychotria blakei Standl. & Steyerm.

• 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 blakei Standl. & Steyerm.

• Type

  Type. Cerro Yapacana, upper Río Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela, alt 100 m, Apr 1931, E. G. Holt & E. R. Blake 743.

• Discussion

  The caudate appendage of the bracts of the inflorescence is much more conspicuous (1.5-2 mm long) than in P. lupulina and subspecies, the marginal nerve more conspicuously thickened, and the stem is much stouter than in that species.