Mazaea shaferi (Standl.) Delprete

Neomazaea Shaferi Standley, sp. nov
Pisonia inermis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 24, in part. 1866. Not P. inermis Jacq. 1763.
Tree, 6-9 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branches rough, grayish, the internodes very short; stipules small, deltoid; petioles stout, 2-4 mm. long; leaf-blades suborbicular, oval, or oval-oblong, 3-5.5 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, often abruptly short-decurrent, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, subcoriaceous, somewhat lustrous, green above, the venation prominulous, brownish beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral veins usually 3 on each side, ascending, very irregular, the intermediate veins coarsely and irregularly reticulate, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, racemose or paniculate, 3-7-flowered, short-pedunculate, much shorter than the leaves, the flowers shortpedicellate, the bracts linear. 1-2 mm. long; hypanthium about 1.5 mm. long; calyx minute, 4-lobate, the lobes oval-ovate, very obtuse; corolla "minute, 4-lobate, the lobes rounded, strongly imbricate, the filaments very short, the anthers short;" fruit elliptic, 6-7 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, very strongly compressed, brownish-black, conspicuously costate; seeds 2 in each cell, linear, caudate-appendaged at each end.
Type collected on a dry, rocky hillside, Sierra Nipe, along trail from Piedra Gorda to Woodfred, Oriente, Cuba, altitude 400 to 500 meters, December, 1909, J. A . Shafer 3313 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.) . Distribution: Cuba.

Mazaea shaferi là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được (Standl.) Delprete mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1999.