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Comprehensive Description

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Manettia orbif era Wernham, Gen. Manettia 41. 1919
Stems scandent, filiform, glabrous; stipules reduced to a very short truncate sheath, this sometimes glandularfimbriate ; petioles 1 cm. long or shorter; leaf-blades ovate, 4-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, sometimes unequal at the base, acutely acuminate at the apex; flowers axillary, solitary, the pedicels 2 cm. long or shorter; calyx-lobes 5-8, linear-lanceolate, 6 mm. long or longer, acuminate, glabrous; corolla salverform, the tube broad, nearly 1.5 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, glabrous outside, barbate within in the throat, the lobes orbicular, 8 mm. long and wide, subacute.
Type locality: Retalhuleu, Guatemala.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1921. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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