Monographs Details:
Authority:

Contributions from The New York Botanical Garden: Volume X 1921-1923.
Family:

Ericaceae
Scientific Name:

Psammisia recurvata
Description:

Species Description - Stems branched, about 5 m. long. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-ovate, 10-20 cm. long, 7-10 cm. wide, pinnately 7-veined from near the base, with numerous curved transverse veinlets, the venation impressed above, prominent beneath, the apex acute, the base narrowed, the stout petiole 1-2 cm. long; flowers several in short axillary racemes; bractlets ovate, acute, about 2 mm. long; pedicels stout, recurved, glabrous, 2-3 cm. long; ovary subglobose, glabrous; calyx subcampanulate, persistent, about 6 mm. long in fruit, its lobes rounded, apiculate, their margins thickened; corollatube about 4 cm. long, red, the short limb white; fruit globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, many-seeded.

Discussion:

Specimens of this plant were mixed by Grisebach with those of another and the complex described by him (Fl. Br. W. I. 143) as Thibaudia latijolia Griseb., subsequently referred by Bentham and Hooker to Vaccinium; it would appear that the name latijolia should go with this other species, which, however, is not a good Vaccinium

Distribution:

Trinidad and Tobago South America|