- 9.5 (13.5) cm long, axillary to leaves, rarely to small deciduous bracts, cymose-paniculate, 
sometimes last branchings congested, foliose bracts sometimes present, peduncle (0.3) 2 - 4.5 (6) 
cm long, glabrescent or glabrous, rachis mostly glabrous, flower pedicel (2.5) 3.5 - 6 (7.5) mm 
long, glabrous; flower urceolate, cream, greenish, or pale greenish yellow, tepals 1.8 - 2.5 mm 
long, 1.2 - 1.7 mm wide, ovate, glabrous outside, inner ones sometimes sparsely pubescent, all 
short sericeous inside, stamens of whorls I & II 1.5 - 1.9 mm long, filament sericeous ad and 
abaxially, sparsely so abaxially, anthers 0.8 -1 mm long, sericeous along connective base 
adaxially, otherwise glabrous, sporangia four, stamens of whorl III 1.6 - 1.9 mm long, filament 
sericeous ad and abaxially, anthers 0.7 - 0.9 mm long, sericeous adaxially, glabrous abaxially, 
sporangia four, rarely one or both two upper ones fused with lower ones, glands ca. 0.5 mm long, 
just above filament base, sericeous adaxially, staminode 0.9 - 1.2 mm long, filament sericeous ad 
and abaxially, sometimes glabrescent adaxially, head 0.5 - 0.8 mm long, cordate in outline, 
acuminate, glabrous adaxially, or sericeous at base, sparsely sericeous on base abaxially, 
hypanthium 0.4 - 0.6 mm deep, glabrous outside, sericeous inside, or glabrescent, pistil 1.9 - 2.3 
mm long, glabrous, ovary 0.8 - 1.2 mm long, 0.8 1.1 mm wide; fruit 8 - 12 mm long, 6 - 11 mm 
wide, ellipsoid, cupule 1.5 - 4 mm long, 4 - 6.5 mm wide, pedicel 3 - 10.5 mm long, 1.8 - 3 mm 
above, 0.8 - 1.2 mm below wide, just the very base of tepals persistent, rarely wholly deciduous 
as one piece. 
Flowers present from October to December. No record of when fruits are present. 
Vegetation type: pinhaes, secondary forest, mata, capao. Between (550) 800 - 1000 (1100) m 
altitude. C. amoenum occurs in the temperate zone of Brazil (Parana to Rio Grande do Sul), 
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