Faramea coffeoides

Faramea coffeoides is an understory shrub or small tree of the Rubiaceae family native to humid tropical forests of the Neotropics, where the genus Faramea encompasses around thirteen species concentrated in eastern Brazil and adjacent regions. Like its congeners, F. coffeoides bears opposite, simple, entire, ovate to elliptic leaves with prominent secondary venation, joined at the nodes by characteristic interpetiolar stipules typical of the family. Small, tubular, four- or five-petalled white to bluish-white flowers are produced in axillary or terminal cymes and have a faint sweet fragrance. The fruits are small, single-seeded, fleshy drupes that turn dark blue or blackish at maturity and are dispersed by birds. The plant grows in the moist shade of lowland and lower montane rainforest.