Cornus disciflora Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

Cornus disciflora Moc. & Sessd; DC. Prodr. 4: 273. 1830
Cornus capitala Sesse & Moc. Fl. Mex. 28. 1893. Not C. capilala Wall. 1820.
Cornus grandis sensu Rose, Contr. TJ. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 54. 1903. Not C. grandis Schlecht. & Cham.
1830. Benthamia disciflora Nakai, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 23: 41. 1909. (Nomen nudum.) Benthamia grandis Nakai, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 23: 41. 1909. (Nomen nudum.)
Shrubs and small trees to 10 m. high (according to Hinton) ; branchlets minutely appressedpubescent, green or red, soon becoming light grey; leaf-blades commonly 7-14 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, lanceolate to elliptic, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, rather coriaceous, glabrous above, paler beneath and minutely strigillose with forked trichomes about 0.2 mm. from point to point; veins usually 3 or 4 on either side of the midrib and spaced equally along it; petioles commonly 5-20 mm. long; inflorescence appearing more or less continuously from August to May, occasionally subtended by 2 pairs of cataphylls like those of C. florida but these usually lacking, the uppermost foliage leaves of the branch often reduced and soon deciduous, the involucre deciduous at anthesis leaving an often lobed hairy rim beneath the flower-cluster; flowers essentially sessile, 15-25 in a cluster about 1.5 cm. across, subtended by an inner ring of minute hairy bracts (? prophylls); hypanthium about 1 mm. high, hairy; calyx 2 mm. high, the lobes obtuse; petals 3 mm. long, reflexed; style less than 2 mm. long; drupes dark red (drying black), nearly 2 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, ellipsoid, pubescent, usually 1-3 in a cluster, the endocarp 1.2 cm. long, 0.6 cm. broad, smooth.
Type locality: "Mexico."
Distribution: Sonora, Zacatecas, and Hidalgo to Panama.

Cornus disciflora is a species of flowering plant native to Mexico and Central America.