Cinnamomum taubertianum (Mez et Schwacke) Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 24. 1961. 
Phobe taubertiana Mez et Schwacke, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21: 427. 1896. Type. Brazil. Goids: Serra 
dos Viadeiros, Ule 3044 (holotype, M (?); isotype, P, n.v.). 
Shrubs (?); twigs densely pubescent, surface concealed by hairs of two types, some 0.5 - 
0.8 mm, erect or spreading, rather straight, others tightly matted, wavy to curly, rather appressed; 
petiole (1.5) 2.5 - 4.5 mm long, 1.2 - 1.8 mm wide, densely pubescent, hairs as on stems; leaf 
blades (2) 2.5 - 4 cm long, (1.5) 2 - 2.7 cm wide, ovate, apex obtuse to acutish, minute apiculate, 
base rounded, densely pubescent above when young, but surface still visible trough hairs, soon 
glabrescent or glabrous, densely pubescent below, surface concealed, hairs as on stems, 
persistent, triplinerved or few trinerved, midvein marked above, pubescent, raised below, 
concealed by hairs as on stems, secondary veins (2) 3 pairs, lowest pair marked above, raised 
below, densely pubescent, other secondaries slightly marked above, raised below but less aparent 
than first pair, concealed by dense pubescence, tertiary veins inconspicuous above, slightly raised 
below, concealed by hairs, domatia absent (inconspicuous ?); inflorescence 3.5 - 7.5 cm long, 
axillary to leaves, cymose-paniculate, often with small foliose bracts, peduncle 1.5 4.5 cm long, 
dense to sparsely pubescent, rachis sparsely pubescent, flower pedicel 2.5 - 3.5 (4) mm long, 
glabrous; flowers urceolate (?), tepals 2.8 - 3 mm long, 1.7 - 2.1 mm wide, ovate or elliptic, 
glabrous outside, sericeous inside, stamens of whorls I & II ca. 2.2 mm long, filaments sparsely 
pubescent ad and abaxially, anthers 1.1 mm long, glabrous, sporangia four, stamens of whorl III 
ca. 2.4 mm long, filaments densely sericeous adaxially, glabrescent abaxially, anthers 0.9 mm 
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