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Galianthe centranthoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Cabral

· Collected 1897 & 1900; determined 1995

Galianthe centranthoides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Cabral
This is a herbarium voucher sheet, not a cartoon or caricature. It holds pressed, dried specimens of *Galianthe centranthoides*, a Rubiaceae shrub native to central Paraguay, mounted on archival paper with typed and handwritten collector labels from Dr. E. Hassler's *Plantae Paraguarienses* series. Multiple ISO TYPE SPECIMEN tags indicate these branches — bearing opposite leaves and compact cymose inflorescences — served as the nomenclatural standard against which the species is formally defined. No satirical tradition applies here. Writing a caricature label for a botanical type specimen would be factually false and professionally irresponsible. A honest label is offered instead.

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