Synonym: Bissea myrtifolia.
Region: Cuba.
Taxonomy: Goetzeaceae, but molecular biological investigations showed that they belong to the nightshade family.
Botany: tree, up to ± 2 m high; branches greyish, occasionally carry spines; leaves narrowly ovate to inverted ovate elliptic or narrowly inverted ovate, front is tapered or prickly, the base wedge-shaped, oblique or heart-shaped and with a rolled back edge, bare, only on the back with some simple, two- to three-cell trichomes; flowers single or in clusters in the branching knots; calyx cup-shaped, ± 2 mm long, with teeth, triangular, with some trichomes; corolla tubular, elongated lanceolate lobes twice as long as the corolla tube, bent back during flowering; stamens 5, located in the middle of the corolla; anthers ± 2 millimetres long; ovary uppermost, single-chambered and has a seed structure; stylus filamentous ± 6 mm long; fruits pointed to the front; seed single, ovoid, ± 7 mm long, 5 mm wide and 5 mm thick.