English: Guamatela
German: Türckheim-Guamatela
Clades: Angiosperms,
Eudicots,
Rosids, Malvids,
Crossosomatales, Guamatelaceae
Region: Central America, southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras.
Habitat: humid cloud forests, pine-oak forests, and mountainous understories.
Use: primarily of botanical, evolutionary interest
BotanyType: shrub; sprawling; prostrate to erect; evergreen .
Root: wooded taproot; with fibrous lateral roots.
Stem: branched; woody; node anatomy 3:3 with annular petiole bundles
Leaves: opposite; simple; serrate margins; palmate venation; undersides are densely whitish-tomentose, woolly.
Inflorescence: terminal, short racemes or clusters.
Flowers: hermaphroditic; persistent, cup-shaped hypanthium; 5 colored sepals; 5 spathulate petals; 10 stamens with sagittate anthers; 3 carpels
Pollination: by insects.
Fruit: follicles (dehiscent dry fruit); partially enclosed by persistent sepals.
Seed: multiple small seeds per follicle; funicular arils; lacking mature endosperm.
Dispersion: by gravity, wind, rain splash.