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Notes:
This species has relatively small leaves, the 5-merous flowers arranged in rather lax small groups, and short corollas with tubes 2-3.8 mm long and the lobes smooth abaxially. Palicourea amita is similar to Palicourea eggersii, which differs in its sessile 4-merous flowers with the corolla tubes ca. 5 mm long and the corolla lobes abaxially appendaged. Palicourea amita has also been confused with plants here classified in Palicourea meieri, which has shorter calyx limbs and longer corolla tubes, and Palicourea cajamarcana, which is found in Peru and also has longer corollas. Palicourea amita is also similar to Palicourea tacarcunensis, which is poorly known; these may be disjunct relatives.
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