Psammisia darienensis Wilbur & Luteyn

cm wide, basally broadly obtuse or cuneate, shortly decurrent, apically short acuminate, entire, brown when dry, pinnately nerved, the midrib plane or slightly impressed above, conspicuously raised beneath, the 5-7 lateral nerves slightly raised on both the surfaces, anastomosing near the margins, the veinlets slightly raised on both the surfaces; petioles subterete, flattened dorsally, 4-7 mm long, 2 mm in diameter. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or paired, racenmose, 8-9-flowered; rachis subterete, bluntly angled, 5-7 mm long; floral bracts per-sistent, coriaceous, ovate lanceolate, acuminate, 2-2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, minutely toothed or glandular fimbriate; pedicels cylindric, striate or ribbed, slightly expanded distally, 9-12 mm long, ca. 0.75 mm in diameter; bracteoles sub-basal, similar to floral bracts but 1.5 mm long, 1 mm broad. Flowers slightly beyond anthesis with the hypanthium and the calyx 6-6.5 mm long, the calyx lobes erect, triangular, acute, 2.5-2.7 mm long, the sinuses acute; corolla subeylindric, ca. 7 mm long, 3.5-4 mm in diameter, the lobes triangular, obtuse, 1-1.2 mm long, reflexed at anthesis; stamens 10, conical, 6 mm long, the fila-ments distinct, ca. 1.5 mm long, 0.75 mm wide, sparsely pilose on the inner sur-face of the distal half, coarsely ciliate onto the connective margins which become indistinct at the base of the tubules, the connectives neither spurred nor callose thickened, the anthers ca. 5.5 mm long including the tubules, the thecae weakly granular, rounded and broadest at the base, not incurved, the tubules straight, 2-2.3 mm long, dehiscing the length of the tubules by an elongate cleft; style not seen. Berry reportedly turning red.