Cinnamomum tomentulosum Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 24. 1961. 
Phoebe tomentosa Meissner, in DC. Prodr. 15: 30. 1864. Type. Brazil. Minas Gerais: Serra da 
Caraga, September 1824, Riedel 522 (holotype, LE, n.v.; isotypes, NY!, US!). 
Phoebe tomentosa var. minor Meissner, in DC. Prodr. 15: 30. 1864. Type. Brazil. Minas Gerais: 
Serra da Caraga, September 1824, Riedel 522 pro parte, (holotype, LE, n.v.; isotype, NY!). 
Persea erythropus var. ovata Meissner, in DC. Prodr. 15: 55. 1864. Type. Brazil. Riedel 2462 
(syntypes, BR!, G!). 
Cinnamomum duartianum Vattimo, An. XV Congr. Soc. Bot. Brasil: 169. 1967. Type. Brazil. 
Minas Gerais: Serra da Catiara, 29 August 1950, A. P. Duarte 3028 (holotype, BR!; isotypes, 
BR! (4 sheets)). 
Trees 3 - 6 m, or shrubs 1 - 2 m tall; twigs densely pubescent, hairs 0.5 - 0.8 mm long, 
rather straight and erect, sometimes hairs wavy; petiole (4) 5 - 9.5 (14.5) mm long, 0.8 - 1.5 (2) 
mm wide, densely pubescent, hairs as on twigs; leaf blades (3.5) 6 - 11 (15) cm long, (1.5) 2.5 - 
4.5 (5.5) cm wide, elliptic, apex acute to long acuminate, or apiculate, base obtuse or acute, 
densely but inconspicuously pubescent above when young, sparsely pubescent to glabrous with 
age, pubescent below, hairs more or less straight and erect, or spreading, rather persistent, leaf 
surface well visible trough hairs, triplinerved, few subtriplinerved, midvein marked above, 
densely pubescent, strongly raised below, pubescent, hairs as on leaf surface, secondary veins 3 - 
5 (6) pairs, marked above, pubescent to glabrescent, raised and pubescent below, tertiary veins 
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