Echites elegantula

Echites elegantula Woodson, Am. Jour. Bot. 22: 686. 1935
Fruticose or suffruticose liana, glabrous throughout; leaves rather thinly membranaceous, ovate-elliptic, 5-8 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. broad, acutely subcaudate-acuminate, obtuse and somewhat decurrent at the base, opaque, the veins not verrucose above, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence lateral, subumbellate, bearing 4-8 showy greenish-cream-colored flowers, the peduncle about half as long as the leaves; pedicels 15-20 mm. long; bracts linear, 2-3 mm. long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 mm. long, indistinctly papillate externally; corolla salverform, very minutely papillate externally, the tube 50-55 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. in diameter at the base, abruptly dilated somewhat below the middle at the insertion of the stamens, gradually constricted above toward the orifice, the lobes obliquely obovate, 30-35 mm. long, spreading; nectaries somewhat less than half as long as the ovary; follicles unknown.
Type locality: Chichen-Itza, Yucatan. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.