- 2.5 cm long, glabrous, flower pedicel 8 - 12.5 mm long, glabrous; flowers urceolate, yellowish, 
tepals 1.3 - 1.5 mm long, 1.3 - 1.7 mm wide, widely ovate or ovate, glabrous outside, sericeous 
inside, outer ones sometimes sparsely so, some scattered red hairs present, stamens of whorls I & 
II ca. 1 mm long, filaments sparsely sericeous at the very base ad and abaxially, anthers 0.7 mm 
long, glabrous ad and abaxially, sporangia four, in two pairs, intorse, stamens of whorl III 1.1 
mm long, filaments sparsely sericeous ad and abaxially at the very base, anthers 0.6 - 0.7 mm 
long, glabrous ad and abaxially, sporangia four, in two pairs, upper ones latrorse, lower ones 
extrorse-latrorse, glands 0.3 - 0.4 mm long, at about the middle part of the filament, rather 
abaxial on filament, rounded, sparsely sericeous adaxially at point of attachment, glabrous 
abaxially, staminodes 0.8 mm long, pedicels sericeous ad and abaxially, head 0.5 - 0.6 mm long, 
narrow cordate-triangular in outline, glabrous adaxially, sparsely (long) sericeous abaxially, 
hypanthium 0.5 mm deep, glabrous outside, sericeous inside, some red hairs present, pistil 1.7 - 
1.9 mm long, glabrous, ovary 0.7 - 0.9 mm long, 0.6 - 0.7 mm wide; fruit 12 - 15 mm long, 0.8 - 
0.9 mm wide, ellipsoid, cupule 7 - 13 mm long, 2.7 - 3.8 mm wide, pedicel 4 - 6 mm long, 0.5 - 
0.6 mm wide, tepals persistent. 
Flowers and ripe fruits in May. Growing in oak forest, between an altitude of 800 - 1000. 
Collected in wet gullies. C. Jeptophyllum is known just from a small area in the western Sierra 
Madre, Mexico. 
Paratype. MEXICO. Veracruz: Mpo. Atzalan, Arroyo Colorado, 800 m, (fr), #. Ventura 
12572 (ENCB, FCME). 
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