Randia armata subsp. panamensis (Standl.) Lorence

Randia panamensis Standley, Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 4: 288
1929. Branchlets slender, 1.5-2.5 mm. thick, terete, brown, puberulent, with scattered, pale, slightly elevated lenticels, sometimes armed with spines at the nodes, the spines slender, rigid, ascending, 5-7 mm. long, the internodes elongate; stipules lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, 5-8 mm. long, erect, brown, many-nerved; leaves crowded at the apices of the branchlets, the slender petioles 3-6 mm. long, strigillose; leaf-blades obovate-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, 4.5-12.5 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, subabruptly short-acuminate, the tip obtuse or acute, at the base acute or acuminate, membranaceous, green and glabrous above, the nerves often subimpressed, slightly paler beneath, strigose along the nerves, short-barbate in their axils, the costa slender, elevated, the lateral nerves about 10 on each side, ascending at an acute angle, almost straight, anastomosing remote from the margin; flowers few, terminal, fasciculate, the pedicels 5-6 mm. long, grayish-strigose; calyx 5-parted, the segments linear-subulate, 5-7 mm. long, 3-nerved, appressed-ciliate; corolla ochroleucous, the tube 2 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at the base, 3 mm. wide in the throat, densely griseous-strigillose, the lobes oval or rounded, 5-6 mm. long, rounded at the apex, sparsely and minutely strigose on the outer surface, glabrous within; apices of the anthers short-exserted.
Type locality: Flat Rock, region of Almirante, Province of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Distribution: Known only from the region of the type locality.