Corobá, Rayado Small tree, to 10 m tall and 10 cm dbh; stems sericeous-villous when young, glabrous and lenticellate in age. Petioles ca 5 mm long, sericeous to glabrate; blades oblong-elliptic, acuminate, rounded at base, 6-14 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, glabrous above, sericeous below when young, becoming glabrate in age. Flowers solitary at sometimes defoliated leaf axils; pedicels stout, sericeous, to 9 mm long, bracteate; sepals 3, connate to above middle, 1-1.5 cm long, sericeous; petals 6, valvate, thick, the outer 3 oblong, 2-2.5 cm long, +/- tomentose, the inner 3 quadrangular-prismatic, 1-1.5 cm long, ca 3 mm thick. Monocarps 10-27, reniform to oblong, 3-4.5 cm long, puberulent, dehiscing along one side and opening out flat to expose seeds, the valves thick and fleshy, red-orange within; seeds several. Croat 6236. Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. In Panama, known from tropical moist forest in the Canal Zone and from tropical wet forest in Colón and Panama.