Metteniusa tessmanniana

Native from Costa Rica to Peru, this woody rainforest species grows as a shrub or tree. Trees can reach about fifty to sixty feet tall. Small flowers occur in clusters and have strongly reflexed lobes surrounding elongated stamens. It belongs to the family Metteniusaceae. The species occurs in wet tropical forests on both sides of the northern Andes and in parts of Central America. Photographed in Peru.