with scattered appressed hairs, secondary veins 5 - 8 (10) pairs, glabrous, tertiary veins slightly 
raised, domatia absent; inflorescence 2.5 - 5.5 cm long, axillary to leaves, cymose, very simple, 
only with one to three dichasia, peduncle 2 - 3.8 cm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, 
flower pedicel (4) 5 - 7.5 (9) mm long, glabrous; flower urceolate, pale greenish yellow, tepals 
1.8 - 2.1 mm long, 1.7 - 2 mm wide, ovate to widely ovate, glabrous outside, rarely the inner 
ones sparsely pubescent, sericeous inside, some red hairs present at tepal base, stamens of whorls 
I & II 1.1 - 1.6 mm long, filaments densely sericeous adaxially and abaxially, some red hairs 
present adaxially, anthers 0.8 - 1.0 mm long, sparsely sericeous on the connective and anther 
base abaxially, sporangia four, stamens of whorl III 1.3 - 1.6 mm long, filaments densely 
sericeous ad and abaxially, usually red hairs present on lower half adaxially, anthers 0.7 - 1 mm 
long, sparsely sericeous adaxially on connective and base margin, sporangia four, glands 0.3 - 
0.5 mm long, at base of filament, sericeous adaxially, staminode 0.7 - 1.1 mm long, pedicel 
densely sericeous ad and abaxially, red hairs mostly covering adaxial face, head 0.4 - 0.8 mm 
long, ovate trullate in outline, glabrous or long sericeous at central area abaxially, hypanthium ca. 
0.5 mm deep, glabrous outside, densely pubescent inside, with red hairs present, sometimes 
covering the whole surface, pistil 1.6 -2.1 mm long, glabrous, ovary 0.8 - 1 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm 
wide; fruit 11.5 - 12.5 mm long, 7.5 - 9 mm wide, ellipsoid, cupule 6 - 8.5 mm long, 5 - 5.5 mm 
wide, pedicel absent, or 2.5 - 3.5 mm long, 0.8 - 1 mm wide, tepals persistent, lower third or half 
fleshy. 
Flowers in December and April. Fruits in April. In pine-juniper forest, between 1750 - 
1800 m. This species is only known from a small area in the central highlands of the state of 
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