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Tree 3-6 m tall, the trunk about 15 cm in diam with gray, rather smooth bark. Branchlets angular, costate-sulcate, more or less compressed, brownish-tomentose with rather patulous, flexuous, dense hairs, and sparsely lenticellate-tuberculate, the internodes 1.5-3.5 cm long. Stipules single or bigeminate, narrowly triangular, 0.8-1.5 and 1.5-3.0 mm long. Young shoots and buds densely ferruginous-tomentose with ascending hairs. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate or paripinnate, 3-7-jugate; axis 5-14 cm long, robust, strongly angular, narrowly sulcate above, striate on the sides, ferruginous-tomentose with patulous subflexous hairs, more or less glabrate, the inter juga 1-3 cm long, the petiole 1.5-3.0 cm long. Leaflets rigid, coriaceous; petiolules tomentose, sulcate above, the lateral 3-6 mm long, the terminal to 10 mm long; blades 5-10 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, oblong-elliptic, obtusely attenuate or obtuse at the base, obtuse, rounded or also attenuate and subacute at the apex, biserrulate, the teeth callous acute, 2-3 mm apart, olive-greenish and shining above, when young pubescent or villous becoming glabrous, the costa impressed, the secondary nerves more or less visible, the minor nerves inconspicuous; green-ochraceous, when dry rather ochraceous, tomentulose beneath, the costa very prominent, the secondary nerves prominent, 12-14 on each side, 4-6 mm apart, parallel-ascending, the angle of divergence 40°-55°, curving near the margin, the tertiary nerves subtransverse, rather irregularly anastomosing with the other minor veins into a prominent, close reticulum, the indumentum of rather long, ascending, subappressed hairs on the main nerves, of more flexuous, more or less crisp, spreading, intricate, often sublanuginose hairs above the reticulum. Inflorescences axillary, long-pedunculate, 8-20 cm long, 4-10 cm broad; peduncle 4-12 cm long, angular, striate, compressed, green-ochraceous or brownish-hirsutulous-tomentose with rather long, spreading hairs, the branches mostly dichotomous, angular, long-subtomentose-hirsutulous, the ultimate ones flower-bearing, very short. Two basal bracts leaf-shaped, 10-15 mm long; bracteoles linear, entire or incised, 1-3 mm long, deciduous. Pedicels thick, 1-3 mm long, pedunculate, the peduncles thick, very short, almost unnoticed, about 1 mm long. Buds pentagonal-globose, about 4 mm in diam. Male flowers pentamerous; calyx about 4 mm long, when expanded 9.5 mm in diam, the lobes ovate, acute, 2.5-3.0 mm long, 1.8-2.0 mm wide, outside tomentellous, inside sericeous, the margin minutely tomentose; filaments 3.5 mm long, hirtous on the lower third, the tip thin and curved; anthers ovoid-cordate, acute, 1.2 mm long, 1 mm broad; carpels 3, rudimentary, the ovary 0.8 mm long, densely hirsute, the styles 1.5 mm long, hamate, pubescent at the base. Female flowers pentamerous; calyx 4.5-5.0 mm long, when expanded 10-11 mm in diam, the lobes ovate-triangular, acute, 3.0-3.5 mm long, 2.0-2.6 mm wide, tomentellous outside, villous-sericeous inside; staminodia small, the filaments 1 mm long, glabrous; anthers reddish, ovate-oblong, acute, subcordate at the base, 0.9-1.0 mm long; carpels usually three, sometimes four or five, the ovary about 1.5 mm long, biovulate, densely hispidulous-hirsute, the styles 3-4 mm long, rather thick, the lower half hirsute, the upper part gradually glabrous, the apex hooked; disc hirsute-tomentose. Follicles two or three maturing, ovoid-oblong, acutely apiculate, moderately attenuate at the base, densely and shortly ferruginous-tomentose, and sparingly hispid outside, 10-12 mm long, 4.5-6.0 mm broad; mature endocarp thick-corneous, ovoid-oblong, attenuate at both ends, the apex very acute, apiculate, the base rounded with an acute angle, 9-10 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, when dry and open short-navicular. Seeds two, ellipsoid-oblong, 3 × 1.5 mm, reddish-brown, very lustrous.

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(Fig 54, p 128.) Andean forests of the eastern Cordillera in Colombia (Cundinamarca-Huíla).

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