| Field notes | Vegetation: bosque humedo andino and secondary scrub. Tree, 4 - 5 m x 10 - 12 in diam., bark greyish pale brown, peeling in papery strips from a ± corky layer, compact rounded crown branching from near base; leaves coriaceous, very discolorous, dark green slightly glossy above, with a pate buff-white indumentum below; flowers slightly malodorous, phyllaries green with a brown tomentum, ray florets sunshine-yellow, disc florets golden-yellow. Rare in secondary scrub. |