@ Phoebe chavarriana Hammel, J. Arnold Arb. 67: 131. 1986. Type. Costa Rica. Heredia: Finca 
La Selva, on Rio Puerto Viejo just E of its junction with Rio Sarapiqui, 2 May 1982, Hammel 
11931 (holotype, DUKE n.v; isotypes, F!, MO!, NY!). 
Trees 7 - 15 m tall; twigs densely tomentulose, hairs ca. 0.1 mm long, straight, appressed, 
becoming sparse with age; petioles (23) 30 - 44 (50) mm long, (2.4) 2.8 - 3.8 mm wide, 
inconspicuously tomentulose, hairs as on twigs, glabrescent with age; leaf blades (27) 30 - 39 
(45) cm long, (10) 13 - 21.5 cm wide, elliptic, narrowly elliptic or ovate, apex acute to 
acuminate, base obtuse, or rounded, less frequently acute, glabrous above, sparsely and 
inconspicuously tomentulose below or glabrous, pinninerved, midvein strongly impressed to 
sunken above, glabrous, strongly raised below, sparsely tomentulose (along the margins), 
q@) secondary veins 9 - 11 pairs, flat or slightly impressed above, glabrous, raised below, sparsely 
tomentulose, tertiary veins flat above, glabrous, almost flat below, domatia absent; inflorescence 
(7) 11.5 - 18 (20.5) cm long, axillary to leaves (or to deciduous bracts), single or clustered on 
very short axillary branches, cymose-panicualte, peduncle (0.4) 3 - 8.5 (9.5) cm long, puberulent, 
rachis puberulent, flower pedicel (2.5) 3 - 4 (4.6) mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; 
flowers greenish or yellowish white, urceolate, tepals 2 - 2.8 mm long, 1.6 - 2.4 mm wide, ovate 
or widely ovate, tomentulose outside, the external ones sparsely so, the external ones glabrous or 
glabrescent inside, inner ones sericeous inside, stamens of whorls I & II ca. 1.9 mm long, 
filaments sparsley tomentulose adaxially, tomentulose abaxially, anthers ca. 1.1 mm long, 
glabrous adaxially and abaxially, or sparsely tomentulose at the base on median section, 
sporangia four, introrse, stamens of whorl III ca. 1.9 mm long, fialments sericeo-villose 
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