11931 (MO, NY, F); edge of Rio Peje, B. Hammel 11679 (F); Finca La Selva, the OTS field 
station on the Rio Puerto Viejo just E of its junction with the Rio Sarapiqui, MH. Grayum 2767 
(MO); Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo, Estacion Magsasay. Sarapiqui., R. Aguilar 158 (MO); 
Finca La Selva, the OTS field station on the Rio Puerto Viejo just E of its junction with the Rio 
Sarapiqui, B. Hammel & J. Trainer 12922 (MO, F); Finca La Selva, Puerto Viejo, Sarapiqui, G. 
Hartshorn 1179 (MO); Sarapiqui, Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo, Llanura de San Carlos, Rio 
Peje, Estacion Magsasay, A. Fernandez 389 (MO). Limon. Reserva Indigena Talamanca, camino 
a Soki entre la quebrada Amubri, margen izquierda de Rio Lari, A. Chacén 13 (MO). 
Cinnamomum chiapense (Lundell) Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 20. 1961. 
Phoebe chiapensis Lundell, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 6: 21. 1941. Type. Mexico. Chiapas: 
Acacoyahua, Mt. Ovando, December 1937, E. Matuda 2064 (holotype, MICH!; isotypes, 
A!, F!, LL!, MO!, NY!). 
Trees or shrubs 2 - 8 m tall; twigs reddish brown, appressed pilose close to the terminal 
bud, otherwise glabrous, hairs 0.1 - 0.2 mm long; petioles (3) 5.5 - 8 (9.5) mm long, (0.5) 0.6 - 
0.9 (1.2) mm wide, canaliculate, scattered appressed pilose when young or glabrous; leaf blades 
(4) 6.5 - 10.5 (12.5) cm long, (0.9) 1.2 - 2 (2.5) cm wide, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, apex 
long acuminate, sometimes slightly falcate, base acuminate, glabrous above and below, very 
sparsely appressed pilose when young, mostly pinninerved, sometimes subtriplinerved or 
triplinerved, midvein flat to slightly convex above, glabrous, slightly raised below, glabrous or 
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