GRANDYI  Hamet, 1913

Synonyms :

Altamiranoa grandyi  (Hamet) A.Berger (1930) / Villadia grandyi  (Hamet) Baehni & Macbride (1937)

Distribution : Peru (Amazonas: Chachapoyas)

Description (according to 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :

Small tufted perennial herbs with suberect stems ± 10 cm tall with small sterile branches.

Leaves alternate, ovate to suborbicular, subobtuse, shortly spurred, 5 - 6.5 mm, flowering branches erect.

Inflorescences few-flowered corymbs.

Flowers subsessile, 5-merous, sepals shortly spurred, unequal, subovate, obtuse, 4.5 - 5 x ± 2.5 mm, the fifth sepal oblong, subobtuse, ± 4 x 2 mm, petals basally connate up to 1.5mm, broadly subovate, subobtuse, colour not described, mucronate, ± 6 mm.