Cinnamomum amoenum (Nees et Martius) Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 20. 1961. 
Oreodaphne amoena Nees et Martius, Linnaea 8: 44. 1833. Type. Uruguay. Montevideo. Se//ow 
3174 (lectotype, B!, chosen here; isolectotype, B!). 
Phoebe amoena (Nees et Martius) Mez, Jahrb. K6nigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 207. 1889. 
Oreodaphne vesiculosa Nees et Martius, Linnaea 8: 44. 1833. Type. Brazil. Sellow s/n, 
(syntype, G!). 
Phoebe vesiculosa (Nees et Martius) Mez, Jahrb. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 206. 1889. 
Cinnamomum vesiculosum (Nees et Martius) Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 24. 1961. 
Trees 4 - 10 (12) m, or shrubs ca. 1.5 m tall; twigs ridged to angulate when young, soon 
terete, pubescent, sometimes densely so, hairs 0.1 - 0.3 mm long, straight and appressed or 
subappressed, glabrescent with age; petiole (1.5) 3.5 - 7 (9) mm long, (0.4) 0.6 - 0.9 (1.1) mm 
wide, glabrous or pubescent, hairs as on twigs; leaf blade (1.5) 4 - 7.5 (11) cm long, (0.5) 1 - 2 
(3.5) cm wide, elliptic, narrowly elliptic or few oblanceolate, apex acute to short acuminate, base 
acute to short attenuate, sparsely pubescent above when young, glabrous with age, densely 
pubescent to glabrescent below, hairs straight and appressed, sutriplinerved, triplinerved, or even 
pinnate veined, midvein flat to slightly sunken above, pubescent when young, glabrous with age, 
strongly raised below, usually pubescent, hairs as on leaf surface, secondary veins (4) 5 - 6 (7) 
pairs, flat above, glabrous, raised below, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, tertiary veins flat above, 
rather so below, primary domatia present, usually several pairs besides the basal ones, sunken 
below, slightly to strongly ampullaceous above, secondary domatia absent; inflorescence (2.5) 5 
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