Pagamea

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pagamea

  • Type

    Type species. P. guianensis Aublet.

  • Description

    Species Description - Trees or shrub. Stipules united into a cylindrical sheath with usually several to many setae at the summit. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, pedunculate or sessile, subcapitate, subracemosely, paniculately, or thyrsoidly arranged, 1-manyflowered. Flowers white, greenish, or creamy. Calyx variously 4-5-toothed or lobed, sometimes truncate at apex. Corolla subrotate to cylindric, 4-5-lobed, densely villosulous within. Stamens 4-5, inserted in the throat. Ovary superior, 2-celled, with a solitary ascending ovule in each cell. Fruit a fleshy drupe containing two pyrenes conspicuously exserted from calyx.

  • Distribution

    Distribution. Chiefly northeastern South America south to Amazonas, Brazil and west to Amazonian eastern Colombia and eastern Peru.

    Brazil South America| Peru South America| Ecuador South America| Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America|