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Notes
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This species is characterized by its usually low unbranched habit, well developed leaves on well developed petioles, laminar bilobed stipules, and flowers borne in a single large head enclosed by a pair of large, purple to magenta bracts. The leaves are distinctive in their smooth undersurfaces and upper surfaces with the veins raised. The peduncles are well developed, and two outer (involucral) inflorescence bracts are about twice as large as the remaining involucral bracts. The corollas are slender and pink. Palicourea correae is similar to Palicourea elata and Palicourea chiriquensi, and these were all thought to be unrelated but molecular data show they are not.
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