Yerba De Guava

Tontanea hirsuta (Bartl.) Standley
Coccocipsilum hirsutum Bartl.; DC. Prodr. 4: 396. 1830.
? Coccocipsilum cilialum Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 414. 1831.
Branches slender or stout, densely hirsute or hispid; stipules subulate, 3-6 mm. long;
petioles 0.4-2 cm. long, hirsute; leaf-blades oval, oval-ovate, or broadly oblong-ovate, 2-5.5
cm. wide, rounded at the base, often short-decurrent, rounded to acutish at the apex, often
apiculate, hirsute or hispid above with long spreading yellowish hairs, scarcely paler beneath, hirsute; heads 3-5-flowered, the peduncles 1-3 cm. long, the bracts linear, 3-4 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium densely hirsute, the calyx-lobes linear, acute, 2.5-5 mm. long; corolla 12-14 mm. long, hirsute, the lobes ovate-oblong or lance-oblong, half as long as the tube or longer; fruit hirsute, 6-10 mm. broad; seeds about 1 mm. broad, dark-brown, minutely tuberculate.
Type locality: Not stated, but probably Mexico. Distribution: Tepic to Veracruz and Panama; also in Trinidad.