Psychotria wenzelii (Merr.) Merr. EPFP

Ordas, Jorge Anton D., Pinarok, Neil Alejandro A., Romeroso, Roanne B., Alejandro, Grecebio Jonathan D. & Banag-Moran, Cecilia I., 2019, A checklist of Rubiaceae species from Eastern Samar, Visayas, Philippines, Check List 15 (2), pp. 295-312 : 308

Psychotria wenzelii (Merr.) Merr. EPFP 3 (1923) 564.

Materials examined. Table 2.

Medium-sized shrub about 3 m high, glabrous throughout. Leaves elliptic to obovate, chartaceous. Inflorescence trichotomously-branching. Flowers white, 4 to 5-merous, glabrous outside, villose within corolla tube. Fruits globose, smooth, orange to dark red or black.

According to Sohmer and Davis (2007), this species was collected only once in 1914 on Jaro, Leyte, which led to its status as a Critically Endangered or possibly Extinct. However, its presence on Samar is proof of an extended geographic distribution beyond its type local- ity. This species closely resembles P. pauciflora Bartl. ex DC but is distinguished by having sessile or subsessile flowers and fruits.