Premise: Odontonema brevipes is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. The species is only known from four localities in the Main Ridge of Tobago. It was described by German botanist Ignatz Urban in his "Symbolae Antillanae", based on collections made by Danish botanist Henrik von Eggers and English-born Trinidadian botanist Walter Elias Broadway.
Hypothesis: The German botanist Ignatz Urban was the first to discover the Odontonema brevipes plant species.