Drypetes asymmetricarpa G. A. Levin

Trees 6–20 m, to 35 cm dbh; bark with longitudinal fissures; branches brown when young, becoming gray, glabrous or sparsely minutely puberulent with spreading hairs. Leaves: stipules 0.5 × 0.5 mm, deltate, puberulent; petiole 3–10 × 0.3–1 mm, glabrous; blade elliptic to lanceolate, straight or somewhat curved, 4–12 × 1.5–4.5 cm, base asymmetrical, acute, margins entire or minutely crenulate-serrulate, often undulate, apex attenuate, surfaces glabrous, 2° veins 6–9/side. Inflorescences axillary fascicles; staminate 25–40-flowered, bracts 0.5 mm, puberulent, pedicels 5–8 × 0.2 mm, glabrous; pistillate (known only in fruit) 2–6-flowered, bracts 0.25 × 0.25 mm, deltate, puberulent, pedicels (8–)10–15 × 0.4–0.8 mm, glabrous. Staminate flowers: sepals 5–6, narrowly triangular to narrowly lanceolate, 1 × 0.3 mm, spreading and slightly incurved at apex, apex acute, margins ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous except puberulent at apex, adaxial surface densely to sparsely puberulent; stamens 5(–6), irregularly alternate and opposite sepals, filaments 1.5–2 mm × 0.1 mm, glabrous, anthers 0.4–0.5 × 0.4–0.5 mm, glabrous, latrorse; disc lobed between stamens, densely puberulent. Pistillate flowers unknown, but remnant sepals (below fruits) ovate-elliptic, 1.5 × 0.6 mm, apex acute and slightly incurved, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial surface densely puberulent; disc annular, densely puberulent; ovary unknown; style becoming subapical during fruit development, 0.5 mm; stigma subreniform, 0.5 × 1 mm, glabrous. Drupes (immature) green, 1-carpellate, ovoid-globose, 12–18 × 7–10 × 6–8 mm, apex strongly asymmetrical, sparsely to densely puberulent with very short hairs (0.1 mm). Seed 1.

Known only from Costa Rica, where it is found from the north central part of the country to the central west coast. It may also be expected in extreme southern Nicaragua.