Group: Dicot Family: Rubiaceae Rank: species

Published In: Ceiba 4(1): 31. 1951. (Ceiba)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Costa Rica: región de los indios Borucas, Estación Experimental de esquinas, área entre los ríos Esquinas y Palmar de Osa

Collector and Number: Allen 5540

Distribution: Costa Rica

Institution(s): HT: EAP; IT: US

Type Specimens (1)

• HT: P.H. Allen 5540; 22 May 1950; Costa Rica: Puntarenas: forest near Esquinas Experimental Station, area between Río Esquinas and Río Palmar Sur de Osa, 200 ft (US-2215926 (photo, MEXU, PTBG); IT: US (photo, MEXU, PTBG))

Next Higher Taxon:

Cephaelis Sw. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 3-, 45. 1788. (Prodr.) View in Botanicus

Other combinations for this basionym:

Psychotria borucana (Ant. Molina) C.M. Taylor & W.C. Burger Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: 1258. 1993. (Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard.)

Psychotria borucana (Ant. Molina) C.M. Taylor & W.C. Burger Fieldiana: Botany, New Series 33: 236. 1993. (Fieldiana, Bot., n.s.)