Psammisia ulbrichiana
Diagnostic description:
Shrub that can reach a height of 2m. Leaves are alternate and arranged spirally. Pendular flowers are maroon in color. Leaves and flowers are pubescent.
Herbivores:
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
Taxonomy:
For original publication details of Psammisia ulbrichiana see: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42(4): 306 306 1909.
Geographic Range:
Psammisia ulbrichiana is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
This information was accessed through Tropicos and Discover Life.
Psammisia ulbrichiana Hoerold is and accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.