the typical red hairs on veins are not as abundant as in the rest of the specimens referred to this 
new taxon. For the rather abundant spreading hairs on lower leaf surface, its morphology 
resembles that of C. se/lowianum, yet the distribution and habitat where this species grows are 
totally different to the place the /rwin et al. 30868 collection comes from. Therefore, I considered 
it to be related to this new species, and I included it in the additional material studied (paratype 
section). 
Cinnamomum salicifolium (Nees) Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 23. 1961. 
Phoebe salicifolia Nees, Linnaea 21: 488. 1848. Type. Mexico. Hidalgo: Huasca, near Regla, 
Ehrenberg 875 (holotype B, n.v.; isotype, F!). 
Persea salicifolia (Nees) Hemsley, Biol. Centr. Amer. III. 72. 1882. 
Trees (3) 4 - 8 m, or shrubs | - 3 (4) m tall; twigs appressed pubescent, hairs 0.2 - 0.5 mm 
long, straight, few times slightly spreading far from branch surface; petiole (2.5) 4.0 - 7.5 (11.0) 
mm long, appressed pubescent to velutinous; leaf blade (2.0) 5.0 - 9.0 (12.0) cm long, and (1.0) 
2.0 - 3.0 (4.5) cm wide, lanceolate to ovate, few times elliptic, apex acute to long acuminate, base 
obtuse to acute, triplinerved, subtriplinerved or, sometimes pinnately veined, with (3) 4 - 6 (7) 
pairs of secondary veins, upper surface appressed pubescent to glabrescent, hairs straight or 
slightly wavy, lower surface sparsely to densely appressed pubescent, often glaucous, usually 
with dark spots, likely produced by some parasite fungus, secondary veins appressed pubescent 
or glabrescent; primary domatia present in several axils of secondary veins, secondary domatia 
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