Coutaportla Urb. (Urban 1923: 146)

Torres-Montufar, Alejandro, Flores-Olvera, Hilda, Avila-Gonzalez, Heriberto, Castro-Castro, Arturo & Ochoterena, Helga, 2023, An assessment of Coutaportla (Chiococceae, Rubiaceae) with the description of a new species from Mexico, Plant Ecology and Evolution 156 (1), pp. 3-12 : 3

Coutaportla Urb. (Urban 1923: 146)

Lorencea ( Borhidi 2003: 17) - Type species: Lorencea guatemalensis (Standl.) Borhidi [= Coutaportla guatemalensis (Standl.) Lorence]

Type species.

Coutaportla ghiesbreghtiana (Baill.) Urb.

Description of the genus.

Shrubs, treelets, or trees. Stipules triangular to deltoid, persistent, intrapetiolar, adpressed. Leaves opposite, petiolate. Inflorescence terminal or axillar, bracteate, racemose, cymose, or solitary flowers. Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous, rarely 5-merous, pedicellate, homostylous, fragrant; corolla infundibuliform, white, pink, or lavender, with imbricate aestivation; stamens with filaments basally inserted to the corolla and connate, anthers basifixed; stigma slightly bilobed; ovary 2-locular, with 1-5 ovules per locule, placentas basal, central, or apical. Fruits capsular, clearly woody at maturity, ellipsoid to oblate, strongly compressed, perpendicular to the septum, with persistent calyx lobes; dehiscence at first loculicidal, then septicidal. Seeds vertically attached to the placenta, flattened, wingless, with thickened margins.