Psychotria rosea var. rosea f. calvescens 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 rosea var. rosea f. calvescens Steyerm.

  • Type

    Type. Along flooded margins of Río Yatua above mouth of Río Yacibo, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela, alt 100-140 m, 4 Dec 1953, B. Maguire, J. J. Wurdack & G. S. Bunting 36518 (holotype NY, isotype VEN). Paratype. BRITISH GUIANA. Kaieteur Plateau, riverside above Kaieteur Falls, 10 May 1944, Maguire & Fanshawe 23362.

  • Description

    Latin Diagnosis - A var rosea f rosea bracteis involucralibus extimis ubique omnino glabris recedit; bracteis ceteris plerumque glabris vel glabrescentibus.

  • Discussion

    This form differs from typical P. rosea in having the outermost bracts of the involucre glabrous throughout on both sides, and in the generally glabrous or glabrescent nature of the remainder of the bracts within a head.