Coussarea cerroazulensis Dwyer

Trees 5-10 m tall, the branchlets terete, densely villosulose, the nodes well spaced, often turgid with evident stipule bases. Leaves elliptic, 15-33 cm long, 5-14 cm wide, acute or conspicuously acuminate, the acumen slender, often narrowly caudate, to 2 cm long, basally cuneate, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca. 12, widely arcuate, prominent beneath, densely golden pubescent, often velutinous to the touch, coriaceous; petioles 2-5 cm long; stipules not seen. Inflorescences terminal, sessile, to 12 cm long in fruit, to 6 cm wide, with 3 pairs of opposite, well-spaced branches, the lowermost to 2 cm long, each terminated by a 3-flowered cymule. Flowers with the hypan-thium squarish in lateral view, coriaceous, densely golden villose, the calycine cup cylindrical, about as wide at the base as at the apex, to 7 mm long, ca. 3.5 mm wide, coriaceous, eglandular within, the hairs outside ferrugineous, long and spreading, the hairs within appressed, ferrugineous, the margin undulate, with 4 irregular triangular teeth, these often curved, to 1 mm long; corolla with the tube narrowly cylindrical, ca. 1.7 cm long, to 3.5 mm wide, somewhat falcate, ex-panded above the middle, coriaceous, densely appressed hairy outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, narrowly oblong, ca. 15 mm long; stamens 4, the anthers narrowly oblong, ca. 7 mm long, sagittate at the base, the filaments plane, ca. 1 mm long, glabrous, attached near the middle of the tube; style slender, ca. 5 mm long, the stigmas subulate, somewhat plane, ca. 5 mm long. Fruits globose, 1-3 cm long, densely puberulent, the persistent calyx narrowly cylindrical, to 1 cm long, ca. 0.4 cm wide, the wall of the fruit 2-3 mm thick.

It is a tropical plant. It has been recorded between 15 and 700 m above sea level in Colombia.