Palicourea fastigiata Kunth

Shrubs to 2 m tall, the branchlets angular, glabrate. Leaves elliptic oblong to ovate oblong, 1.5-11.0 cm long, 3.3-5.0 cm wide, acuminate, basally acute, membranous, glabrous; petioles stout, to 0.7 cm long; stipules connate, ca. 5 mm long, each part with 2 well-spaced awns. Inflorescences terminal, flat topped; peduncle 5.0-10.5 cm long, glabrous, the branches erect or strongly ascending, fastigiate, the corymbs tripartite; bracts subulate, glabrous. Flowers on slender pedicels, ca. 1.5 cm long, fastigiate, glabrous; hypanthium and calycine cup small, gla-brous, the lobes small, ovate or rounded; corolla yellow or orange pink, the tube