Gustavia nana Pittier

Shrubs or small trees to about 9 m. tall; leafy twigs rather slender. Leaves congested seasonally toward the tips of the branches, of mediocre size for the genus and with proportionately long slender petioles, the blade rather narrowly oblong-lanceolate, up to about 4 dm. long and 8 cm. broad, rather gradually and acutely acuminate, more abruptly cuneate at the base, rather obscurely and distantly undulate-serrulate, membranaceous, glabrous; petiole variable in length, about 3-15 cm. long. Flowers mostly densely cauliflorous beneath the terminal cluster of leaves; peduncle corymbosely several-flowered; hypanthium depressed-turbinate, about 7 mm. broad and 5 mm. long at anthesis; calyx reduced to an obscurely 4-lobed ring 1.5-2.0 cm. in diameter, minutely puberulent-papillate; petals 6-8, more or less unequal, oblong-obovate, deep pink, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, densely papillate. Mature fruits subglobose, up to about 7 cm. in diameter, the opercular region of about equal diameter, not very fleshy, the pericarp about 5 mm. thick.

It is a tropical plant.