w LL (2 sheets) , MO, MICH, US). 
Cinnamomum napoense van der Werff, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 411. 1991. Type. 
Ecuador. Napo: Estacion Bioldgica Jatun Sacha. Palacios 2886 (holotype, MO!; isotypes, G!, 
NY!, US}). 
Trees 5 -15 m tall; twigs fistulose, sparsely puberulous, hairs 0.1 mm long (or shorter), 
straight, appressed, soon glabrous or glabrescent; petioles (12.5) 20 - 40 (50) mm long, 1.3 - 2.4 
mm wide, sparsely puberulous, hairs as on twigs; leaf blades (13) 17 - 30 (36) cm long, (4) 5.5 - 
10 (12) cm wide, elliptic or narrow elliptic, apex acuminate to long acuminate, base , glabrous 
above, sparsely puberulous below, hairs as on twigs, or glabrous, pinninerved, rarely 
q@ subtriplinerved, midvein sunken above, glabrous, sparsely puberulous when young, strongly 
raised below, sparsely puberulous, secondary veins (5) 6 - 7 (8) pairs, slightly sunken to 
impressed above, raised below, puberulous, tertiary veins slightly impressed to flat above, 
slightly raised below, domatia absent; inflorescences (5.5) 9 - 13 (15.5) cm long, axillary to 
leaves or at the base of axillary branches, or fascicled (comming from an atrophied axillary shoot 
bud), cymose-paniculate, peduncle 2 - 8 (11) cm long, sometimes absent, puberulous, rachis 
puberulous, flower pedicel (2.3) 3 - 4.5 (5.5) mm long, puberulous or glabrescent; flowers pale 
yellow or pale yellowish white, tepals 2.1 - 2.3 mm long, 1.3 - 1.8 mm wide, ovate, external ones 
sparsely puberulous outside, inner ones puberulous outside, short sericeous inside, stamens of 
whorls I & II 1.4 - 1.8 mm long, filament sparsely puberulous along median section adaxially, 
puberulous abaxially, anthers 0.8 mm long, glabrous ad and abaxially, sporangia four, introrse, 
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