Tabernaemontana amygdalifolia Jacq.

Tabernaemontana amygdalifolia Jacq. Enum
PL Carib. 14. 1760.
Tabernaemontana acapulcensis Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 57. 1878.
Tabernaemontana cymosa Sess6 & Moc. Fl. Mex. 47. 1893. Not T. cymosa Jacq. 1760. Tabernaemontana dichotoma Sess6 & Moc, Fl. Mex. 47. 1893. Not T. dichotoma Roxb. 1814. Tabernaemontana Deamii Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 52: 50. 1911.
Shrub or small tree, 2-15 m. tall, wholly glabrous; leaves membranaceous, oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 3-15 cm. long, 4-5.5 cm. broad, obtuse to abruptly acuminate, acutely or infrequently obtusely cuneate at the base, the petioles 5-13 mm. long; inflorescence corymbose, much branched, usually somewhat shorter than the subtending leaves, bearing few to numerous, creamy-white or waxy-white flowers of medium size; pedicels 10-20 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute to obtusish, 2.5-3 mm. long, somewhat imbricate; corolla salverform, the tube 14-16 mm. long, somewhat narrowed toward the orifice, the lobes narrowly obovatedolabr iform, somewhat reflexed, 16-22 mm. long, rather inconspicuously acuminate laterally; stamens inserted near the orifice of the corolla-tube, the anthers margined with bluish-green, about half-exserted; ovary surrounded at the base by an adnate annular nectary; follicles narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, 3-6 cm. long, 1.25-1.8 cm. broad, narrowly acuminate, longitudinally striate, otherwise smooth.
Type locality: [Cartagena, Colombia.]
Distribution: Jalisco to Yucatan, and southward to Panama; also in Colombia and Venezuela.

Tabernaemontana amygdalifolia is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to southern Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Haiti, and northwestern South America.