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Notes:
This species is characterized by its pilosulous pubescence throughout; its narrowly elliptic leaves with the margins regularly crisped; its pedunculate, shortly corymbiform inflorescences; its shortly pedicellate (to ca. 1.2 mm) flowers; its short calyx limbs; and its subglobose to didymous red fruits. The pubescence was characterized in the protologue as ferrugineous, but it appears to have dried whitened instead in the on-line image of the type material at P. This species is poorly known, and apparently similar to Apomuria angustifolia var. pubescens (which is now included in Psycohtria desirei. Bremekamp separated a number of species of Psychotria based largely on leaf characters, and these species are similar but not well known and will need reevaluation when more material is available.
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