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Guettarda comata Standl.

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Published In: Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13(6): 116-117. 1936. (Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser.)

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Notes:

This species has a lianescent habit, stout main stems with strong recurved spices, densely hirsute or pilose pubescence, medium-sized leaves, congested-cymose to subcapitate inflorescences on well developed peduncles, regularly developed, deciduous bracts, medium-sized flowers, and medium-sized ellipsoid fruits. It is similar to Guettarda pohliana and Guettarda aromatica.

Distribution: Wet forest 120-1100 m, western Amazon basin in Ecuador, Peru, western Brazil, and northeastern Bolivia.