Isotipo:

FMB–23797. COLOMBIA. Chocó: Medellín-Quibdó road, kms 153-154, steep roadside slope and pasturelands with remnant forest, 500-550m, 5-IV-1979 (fl), J. L. Luteyn & M. Lebrón-Luteyn 7227.

Referencia:

Luteyn, J. L. 1983. Ericaceae. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 35: 121.