tepals apparently persistent. 
There are no data about the time of flowering, neither on the habitat conditions where this 
species grows. 
C. heterantherum is one of the species considered in this study that stands in the 
boundary between the genera Ocotea and Cinnamomum. Its affinity to the latter one, however, is 
stronger for the presence of domatia. Even its pinninerved leaves resemble some collections of C. 
triplinerve from Colombia and some Caribean islands where this feature is found. Yet, the 
combination of this character along with the reduction of sporangia in the anthers of whorl III, 
gives it enough distinctiveness to consider it a different species. 
It is not clear why it hasn't been collected again during the last two hundred years. One 
possibility is that since stamens and staminodes do not remain in the fruit, it has been 
misidentified and filed under a different genus. 
Cinnamomum hirsutum Lorea-Hernandez, sp. nov. TYPE: Brazil. Sao Paulo, Serra da 
Cantareira, 20 March 1969, (fl), B. Braga 36 (holotype, SPSF; isotypes, FCME, MO). 
Arbores. Folia obovata vel oblanceolata, apice acutato vel acuminato, triplinervia aut 
subtriplinervia, infra hirsuta trichomatibus subrectis, erectis; domatiis praesentibus ad axillas 
nonnullas venarum secundariarum et tertiariarum, saepe inconspicuis, pagina foliari ad domatia 
infra subplana, supra leviter prominens. Inflorescentia ex cymis in paniculam aggregatis 
constans, bracteis foliaceis carens. Flos tepalis extus sicut pedicello tomentosis, hypanthio intus 
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