17 cm long, axillary to leaves, sometimes (?) clustered just about shoot apex, cymose-paniculate, 
last branchings often congested, peduncle 0 - 0.5 (2.5) cm long, densely pubescent, rachis 
densely pubescent, flower pedicel glabrous or glabrescent; flower urceolate, greenish, tepals ca. 3 
mm long, 2.2 - 2.9 mm wide, ovate to widely ovate, glabrous outside, outer ones sericeous only 
at base, glabrous elsewher, inner ones sericeous inside, stamens of whorls I & II 2 2.5 mm long, 
filaments sericeous ad and abaxially, anthers ca. 1.2 mm long, glabrous, sporangia four, stamens 
of whorl III 2.1 -2.5 mm long, filaments long sericeous adaxially, few red hairs present, mostly 
sericeous along median section abaxially, anthers 0.9 - 1.1 mm long sericeous along median 
section adaxially, glabrous abaxially, sporangia four, glands 0.7 - 0.9 mm long, just above 
filament base, densely sericeous adaxially, staminode ca. 1.8 mm long, filament long sericeous 
ad and abaxially, head ca. 1 mm long, cordate in outline, glabrous adaxially, long sericeous 
abaxially, hypanthim 0.5 - 0.6 mm deep, glabrous outside, densely sericeous inside, pistil 2.7 - 
2.9 mm long, glabrous, ovary 1.1 - 1.3 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide; fruit not known. 
Flowers in February. Fruits in July (very young). In high altitude forest (no particular 
type indicated); at 2000 m altitude. Presently known only from two collections in northern 
Ecuador. 
This species is sharply different from the rest of the Cinnamomum species in the area of 
study. Its broad leaves with two kind of hairs on the lower surface, as well as on the twigs, are 
not found in any other species of the genus in America. 
Specimens examined. ECUADOR. Imbabura. Road Otavalo-Apuela, H. van der Werff 
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