| Field notes | Vegetacion: Bosque humedo andino and secondary scrub. Shrub, 2-3m x 4-5 cm diam., bark pale brown, with a dense coating of lichen, young flush foliage with a pinkish tinge and pink-red margins, mature leaves fleshy-coriaceous, discolorous, mid-yellow-green above,paler below, main vein yellow; fruits yellowish, maturing purplish black, hard, globose. Local in bosque |