''Psychotria rhonhofiae'' is a species of

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in the family Rubiaceae. It is

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Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

. It was named after Arnold (1875-1948) and Hertha Schultze-Rhonhof, botanists active in Ecuador in the 1930s.

References

* S.S. Renner 1993. ''A History of Botanical Exploration in Amazonian Ecuador, 1739-1988''

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