Neobertiera pakaraimensis Delprete (2015: 126

Delprete, Piero G., 2019, Additional studies in Neobertiera (Rubiaceae, Sipaneeae): a new species from the state of Pará, Brazilian Amazon, and a new combination for a species from French Guiana, Phytotaxa 392 (3), pp. 225-231 : 229-230

3. Neobertiera pakaraimensis Delprete (2015: 126 , figs. 2, 5)

For species description, illustration, and specimens cited, see Delprete (2015: 216–217, figs. 2, 5).

In the description of Neobertiera pakaraimensis, Delprete (2015: 215–216) wrote that the corollas are “ 4.8–5 mm long” with tubes “ 4.5 mm long” and corolla lobes “oblong, 3–3.2 × 1.1–1.2 mm ”. While the corolla lobes shape and dimensions were correctly reported, the corollas of this species are 7–7.7 mm long, with tubes 4–4.5 mm long, instead. These corrections are necessary for the correct description of the species, and because its corolla dimensions are compared with those of N. montedouradensis in the diagnosis (see above).

Distribution and ecology:—Only known from two collections in Guyana, in the Pakaraima Mountain Range, eastern portion of the Roraima Massif, growing at river margins inside wet forest; one collection at 120 m and the other at 975–1125 m elevation.