Pentagonia magnifica K. Krause

Watsonamra magnifica (K. Krausc) Standley, Contr. U. S
Nat. Herb. 17: 441. 1914.
Pentagonia magnifica K. Krause, Bot. Jahrb. 40: 325. 1908.
Small tree, about 3 meters high, the branches brownish, sericeous when young; stipules lance-oblong, about 5 cm. long, attenuate; leaves sessile or subsessile, the blades obovate or obovate-oblong, 30-78 cm. long, 15-29 cm. wide, narrowed to the obtuse or rounded base, acuminate at the apex, entire, glabrous or minutely sericeous beneath along the veins, the lateral veins prominent, 12-15 on each side; cymes densely flowered, sessile or short-pedunculate; bracts ovate, acute; hypanthium 3-4 mm. long, sericeous; calyx tubular, 1.5 cm. long, sparsely sericeous outside, red, the lobes ovate, 5-6 mm. long, obtuse; corolla red, puberulent, especially above, the tube 2-2.5 cm. long, the lobes short, oblong, obtuse, reflexed or spreading; filaments about 1 cm. long, the anthers linear; disk entire; fruit globose or ovoid-globose, 1.2-2.2 cm. in diameter or larger.
Type locality: Along the Rio Timbique, Colombia. Distribution : Panama and Colombia.