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Pentagonia gomez-loritoi is a "palmoid" or "Corner Model Tree" of the Costa Rican and Panamanian rainforest belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It is usually single-trunked (but occasionally branching low into several reiterations ) up to 6 m (20 ft) in height. It is most noteworthy for its pairs of huge, entire margined, shiny oblanceolate leaves; each leaf up to 140 cm (55 in) in length by up to 56 cm (22 in) in width. petiole very short or none. The pairs of leaves are spaced several inches apart along the stem. This species was totally unknown prior to 2014.
The plant was described in 2015 by Barry Edward Hammel. The type specimen was collected near Oeste de Volio in Costa Rica by J. Gómez-Laurito & G. Vargas in 1990.
Pentagonia involucrata · Pentagonia macrophylla · Pentagonia rubriflora · Pentagonia spathicalyx · Pentagonia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pentagonia gomez-lauritoi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
