Abstract
and 1987 (Brewer-Carias, 1988), numerous additional collections of the genus were made and subsequently determined as Brachynema ramiflorum Bentham. However, more detailed study revealed that the Venezuelan specimens are significantly different from this species and merit recognition as a distinct species, due to their axillary (vs. ramiflorous), often tetramerous (vs. strictly pentamerous) flowers, tricolpate instead of triporate pollen (Lobreau-Callen, 1980), larger fruits, smaller calyx at anthesis, glabrous corolla lobes (vs. internally hairy), and the base of the corolla tube purple and lacking the characteristic zebra stripes of B. ramiflorum. Brachynema axillare R. Duno & P. E. Berry, sp. nov. TYPE: Venezuela. Estado Amazonas: I)pto.
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