Type : Guyana, Groete Cr. (basse Essequibo), mixed forest on lateritic soil in rocky places, 21/04/1943, fleurs & jeunes fruits. 90' tree 20" diam. with plank buttresses to 6' lvs young, thinly fleshy, smooth- fls in term. forked cymes, unilateral, erect calyx green, scarcely lobed- corolla long-tubular, milk white, limb 5 parted, spreading - young fr. ovoid, green - all parts glabrous. [added notes in pencil - ' 1 pendulous ovule in each locule. Style with 2 long narrow branches']. Fanshawe 1255 [= F.D.3991] (HT:
K000173096,
K000173097; IT:
NY00131679 [Holotype de
Guettarda fanshawei Steyerm. 1972]).