Cremastosperma chococola Pirie

Tree ca. 5 m tall; young twigs and petioles glabrous. Leaves: petioles 5–8 by 1.5–2 mm; lamina narrowly elliptic, 11–20 by 4–5.5 cm (index 3.7–4), chartaceous, dark/olive brown, shiny above, lighter pinkish-brown, matt below, glabrous above and below, base acute to cuneate, apex acuminate (acumen 7–10 mm long), primary vein ca. 1 mm wide at widest point, verrucose below, secondary veins 8–10, no intersecondary veins, distance between from 5 mm at the base to 30 mm closer to the apex, angles with primary vein from ca. 60° at the base to 60–70° closer to the apex, forming distinct loops, smallest distance between loops and margin 2.5–3.5 mm, tertiary veins reticulate. Inflorescence of single flowers, solitary or clustered in groups of at least two, on brachyblasts on the main trunk; peduncles, 2–3 by 1–1.5 mm (in fruit); pedicels 38–42 by 1 mm at the base, 1 mm at the apex (in fruit), peduncles and pedicels glabrous; lower bract(s) not observed; upper bract attached within basal half of pedicel, ovate, ca. 1 by 0.7 mm, obtuse, glabrous; flowers not observed. Monocarps 10–13, ellipsoid, strongly asymmetrical (stipes inserted within basal half of longest axis), 13–14 by 10–11 mm, with an excentric, to 0.2 mm long, apicule, green maturing through red to dark blue in vivo, dark brown in sicco; stipes 15–18 by ca. 1 mm increasing to 1.5 diam. when mature; fruiting receptacle depressed ovoid, 4–5 mm diam.; monocarps, stipes and receptacle glabrous. Seeds ellipsoid, orange-brown, pitted, 9–11 by 6–8 mm, raphe sunken, regular.

Pacific coast of Colombia (Chocó).