Cercocarpus macrophyllus C. Schneid.

Cercocarpus macrophyllus C. K. Schneid. Handb
Laubh. 1: 530. 1905.
Large shrub or small tree; branches thick, at first cinerascent, sericeous-villous, in age glabrescent or glabrous, brown; leaves petioled, large for the genus; blades thick, elliptic or oval, rounded, subcordate or short-cuneate at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, green and glabrous or nearly so above, cinereous beneath, grayishvillous and rugose between the veins, sharply serrate; lateral veins 9-20 (usually 12-20) on each side, very prominent beneath; flowers in fascicles of 5-10, long-pedicelled; tube of the hypanthium 5-7 mm. long, sericeousvillous; limb together with the sepals 6 mm. wide; sepals triangular; achenes 7 mm. long; style in fruit 5-6 cm. long.
Type locality: Orizaba, Vera Cruz. Distribution: Central and southern Mexico.