Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Manettia calycosa Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 330. 1861
Lygistum calycosum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 287. 1891.
Stems slender, glabrous or minutely pilose on the angles; stipules short, deltoid, denticulate; leaves short-petiolate, the blades ovate or lance-ovate, 2-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, obtuse or acute at the base, acutely acuminate at the apex, membranaceous, glabrous, or short-pilose beneath along the costa; inflorescence axillary, cymose, fewor many-flowered, subsessile, the pedicels slender and elongate; calyx-lobes 4 or 5, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 mm. long, spreading, often 4 mm. wide; corolla salverform, red, 1.6 cm. long, thinly short-pilose or puberulent outside, barbate within in the throat.
Type locality: Haiti.
Distribution: Hispaniola; also in Colombia and Venezuela.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1921. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY