Faramea tenuifolia Rusby
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Authority
Rusby, Henry H. 1927. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Plants Collected on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Valley 1921-1922. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 7: 205-387.
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Family
Rubiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - (Fruiting specimen.) Glabrous. Branchlets elongate, slender, nerved, or the younger narrowly angled. Stipules connate, broader than long, papillose, aristate, the awns elongating, at length 4 or 5 mm. long. Petioles divaricate, 1 cm. long, including the abruptly produced base of the leaf, margined. Blades to 1 or even 1.5 dm. long, and 5 cm. broad, oblong or oval, with the base abruptly contracted into the petiole and an abruptly short-pointed and obtuse summit, thin. Cymes terminating the branchlets, slenderly peduncled, mostly simple and small, with mostly about 5 fruits. Pedicels very slender, 4 or 5 mm. long. Mature fruits about 6 mm. broad and 5 mm. high, bearing the shortly toothed calyx-limb, which is about 1.5 mm. broad, and surrounds the concave style base, the surface of the fruit being densley papillose or muricate. This is the only Bolivian species with muricate fruit that I have seen, but it is evidently quite distinct from F. saliclfolia.