Vismia latisepala N.Robson

stellate hairs and dense erect stellate or dendroid hairs, not glabrescent. Leaves petiolate; petiole (15-)20-32 mm long, densely appressed chocolate-to ferru-gineous-tomentose, not glabrescent; lamina 10.5-21.0 cm long, 4.5-10.0 cm wide, oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate to ovate or lanceolate, the apex acute or obtuse to shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base shallowly cordate to rounded or more rarely broadly cuneate, rarely asymmetric, chartaceous, dull to sublucent above, ferrugineous beneath, the main lateral veins (10-)13-18, dark or reddish brown, joining the midrib at 90?, uniting in submarginal loops, with or without inter-mediate lateral veins, and with densely reticulate venation slightly prominent on both sides, the glandular dots present, usually obscured by the indumentum, the stellate hairs dense, appressed, ferrugineous to fawn, obscuring the epidermis, and with dense ferrugineous stellate-dendroid hairs. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, 30-40-flowered, pyramidal to subcylindric, 3-5-noded, the basal node sometimes with a deciduous bract-pair, with leaves (reduced or not) at the lower nodes often subtending axillary accessory branches; rachis and pedicels ferrugineous to chocolate appressed or spreading tomentose, not glabrescent; buds globose. Flowers homostylous; sepals 7-10 mm long, free or united at the base, the outermost 4-7 mm wide, ovate, obtuse to acute, the exposed surfaces densely ferrugineous to chocolate appressed-tomentose with stellate hairs, the inner margins entire, with numerous glandular streaks and lines, erect in fruit; petals white to yellow, 9-13 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, 1.3 times as long as the sepals, broadly obovate to obovate-spatulate, rounded, erect, with or rarely without numerous distal fine continuous black glandular lines and sometimes marginal short streaks, internally whitish-villous; stamen fascicles free, deciduous, with ca. 70 stamens, whitish-villous, as long as the sepals; staminodial fascicles persistent, ca. 2 mm long, oblong, distally pilose; ovary ca. 2.5 mm long, subglobose, eglandular, glabrous, the styles ca. 2 mm short of the sepal apices, proximally gland dotted, the stigmas broadly capitate. Fruits 15-20 mm long, 15-20 mm wide, globose, yellowish green (immature) glabrous; seeds dark reddish brown, ca. 2.5 mm long.