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Notes:
This species is characterized by its subsessile, medium-sized, lanceolate leaves with cordulate bases and a stiff fibrous texture, terminal inflorescences with usually 3 subsessile flowers, well developed calyx limbs, well developed white corollas with acute lobes, and medium-sized subglobose to oblate fruits. This species is rather odd and distinctive within Faramea. Its mature flowers have now been documented, and have corolla tubes 19-20 mm long and lobes 10-12 mm long. The stipules are caducous. The inflorescences are enclosed by a pair of well developed stipules and usually a pair of small foliaceous bracts. Faramea correae is similar to Faramea permagnifolia and Faramea zamorana, both of southern Central America. Faramea correae is also remarkably similar to Rudgea mandevillifolia Dywer ex C.M. Taylor, Rudgea panamensis
(Dwyer) C.M. Taylor, and Rudgea haemispherica Dwyer ex C.M. Taylor, also of central Panama; the Rudgea species have truncate to rounded stipules with glandular appendages.
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