Chiococca phaenostemon Schltdl.

Shrubs or trees, to 30 m tall, the twigs terete, smooth, glabrous, often nodose (persistent stipule bases). Leaves oblong or falcate lanceolate, 2.5-10.0 cm long, 0.7-3.3 cm wide, tapering to a narrow cusp, to 1.2 cm long, attenuate acute to cuneate at the base, usually slightly inequilateral, the costa plane or prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca. 8, often evanescent, delicately prominulous, at first strict, then arcuate and forking, the intervenal areas indis-tinct, subcoriaceous, lustrous, glabrous, delicately marginate; petioles to 2.5 cm long, ca. 0.12 cm wide; stipules connate, compressed hemispherical or widely deltoid, to 4 mm long, including the median subulate projection. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, when terminal about as long as the uppermost leaves and disposed as a spreading raceme or a narrow panicle, the peduncle 1.5-3.0 cm long, terminated by 3 or 4 primary branches, 2 or 3 of these longer, bearing short branches along their length or unbranched and with cymules. Flowers with the hypanthium oblong rotund, ca. 2.2 mm long, ca. 2.3 mm wide, smooth, glabrous, the calycine cup arising from a constricted base, ca. 0.8 mm long, glabrous, the lobes 5, oblong, ca. 1 mm long, convex in cross section, crassate, glabrous but puberulent marginally; corolla white or yellow, the tube campanulate, 3.6-6.0 mm long, constricted basally, thin carnose, glabrous, the lobes 5, subequal, as-cending, deltoid, ca. 3 mm long, ca. 1.8 mm wide at the base, glabrous; stamens 5, the anthers linear, ca. 4.2 mm long, ca. 0.15 mm wide, the filaments slender, ca. 0.5 mm long, barbate, connate for ca. 0.35 mm, not attached to the corolla tube; ovarian disc doughnut shaped, 0.9-1.0 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, 0.6-0.75 mm high, the style linear subulate, 6.5-9.0 mm long, ca. 0.25 mm wide, narrower toward the base, the ovary bilocular, the ovules 2, oblong, ca. 1 mm long, pendent from the apex of the locule. Fruits on pedicels to 0.3 cm long, oblong rotund to rotund, to 0.5 cm in diam.,-the calyx persistent, smooth, glabrous, occasionally delicately ribbed or sulcate.

It is a tropical plant. It grows between 750-3,000 m above sea level.