Oaxaca. Uxpanapa region, along gravel road from Esmeralda (17 km E of Sarabia) to Rio Verde, 
1.1 mile S of Esmeralda, 7. Croat & D.P. Hannon 63214 (MO(2 dups)); Tuxtepec, Chiltepec and 
vicinity, G. Martinez-Calderon 119 (MEXU); Tuxtepec, Chiltepec, G. Martinez C. 173 
(MEXU); Matias Romero, Uxpanapa region, aprox. 22 km al S de Esmeralda, aprox. 9 km al S 
de Aserradero La Floresta, lomas al S de Rio Verde, 7. Wendt et al. 3054 (MO); Tuxtepec, C. 
Ramos 616 (FCME (4 dups)). Tabasco. Without precise locality, 4. Hanan 345 (FCME). 
Cinnamomum hammelianum (W. Burger) Lorea-Hernandez, comb. nov. 
Phoebe hammeliana W. Burger, Fieldiana, Bot. n.s. 23: 113. 1990. Type. Costa Rica. San José: 
0.9 km above La Chonta. R. W. Lent 1678 (holotype, CR n.v.; isotypes, F!, NY!). 
Trees 8 - 20 m tall; twigs densely or sparsely tomentulose near the terminal shoot bud, 
hairs 0.1 - 0.2 mm long, straight, appressed, becoming scarse very soon with age; petioles (6) 12 
- 22 (28) mm long, (1) 1.5 - 2.3 (2.8) mm wide, glabrescent, hairs as on twigs; leaf blades (5) 9 - 
20 (29) cm long, (2.5) 3.5 - 8.5 (15) cm wide, elliptic or ovate, apex acute to acuminate, base 
round or obtuse (rarely subcordate), glabrous above and below, sparsely pubescent below when 
young, pinninerved, midvein strongly impressed or sunken above, glabrous, raised below, 
glabrous, secondary veins (5) 7 - 9 (10) pairs, slightly impressed or flat above, glabrous, slightly 
raised below, glabrous, tertiary veins flat above, almost flat below, domatia absent; 
inflorescences (6) 8.5 - 17 (20) cm long, usually clustered on short branches axillary to leaves, or 
single, or clustered close to terminal shoot buds, cymose-paniculate, foliose bracts sometimes 
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