Cremastosperma brevipes (DC.) R. E. Fr.

Tree 4–20 m tall, 3–20 cm diam.; young twigs and petioles glabrous to sparsely covered with appressed white/yellowish hairs to 0.2 mm long. Leaves: petioles 4–9(–12) by 1.5–4 mm; lamina elliptic to obovate or narrowly so, 18–39 by 7–15 cm (index 2–3.5), chartaceous, brown/green with a reddish tinge on both sides (particularly on the veins on the underside), darker above, glabrous on both sides, base obtuse to rounded, rarely acute, apex acuminate (acumen 5–20 mm long), primary vein 1.5–3 mm wide at widest point, secondary veins 9–15, intersecondary veins 0–2, distance between from 5–10 mm at the base to 35 mm closer to the apex, angles with primary vein from 45–60° at the base to 55–70° closer to the apex, not branching, forming mostly distinct loops, smallest distance between loops and margin 1–3 mm, tertiary veins percurrent. Inflorescence of single flowers, solitary or clustered in groups of 2, on leafless twigs; peduncles 1–2 by 1–2 mm (in flower), 2–5 by ca. 2 mm (in fruit), sparsely to rather densely covered with appressed white/yellowish ca. 0.1 mm long hairs; pedicels 15–20 by 1–2 mm at the base (in flower), 18–23 by ca. 2 mm (in fruit), sparsely covered with appressed white/yellowish hairs ca. 0.1 mm long or glabrous; 2 lower bracts, deltate, basal to 0.2 mm long, apical 0.3–0.5 mm long, obtuse, mostly persistent, rather densely covered with appressed white/yellowish hairs ca. 0.1 mm long; upper bract mostly attached midway along pedicel, deltate to broadly ovate, 1–2 by ca. 1 mm, obtuse or emarginate, sparsely covered with appressed white/yellowish hairs ca. 0.1 mm long; closed flower buds depressed ovoid, opening in development; flowers green, sometimes tinged with red around margins of petals or creamy yellow in vivo, reddish or dark brown in sicco, sepals and petals glabrous; sepals connate for 0.5–1 mm, broadly ovate, recurved, rarely appressed, 3–4[-5] by 3.5–5 mm, obtuse, soon falling off; outer petals elliptic, 12–22 by 7–12 mm, rounded, inner petals narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, 10–24 by 4–7 mm, obtuse; androecium ca. 6 mm diam.; stamens 1.4–1.6 mm long, connective appendage 0.5–0.7 mm wide; gynoecium ca. 1 mm diam.; carpels ca. 25, ca. 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Monocarps 7–17, ellipsoid, slightly asymmetrical, 11–17 by 9–11 mm, green maturing to red, reddish-brown, dark purple or black in vivo, blackish or reddish-brown in sicco, with an excentric apicule; stipes green maturing to red in vivo, 7–14 by 1–1.5(3) mm; fruiting receptacle depressed ovoid, 4–8 mm diam., monocarps, stipes and receptacle glabrous. Seeds broadly ellipsoid to globose, yellowish or orange-brown, slightly pitted, ca. 8 by 7–8 mm, raphe raised within a sunken groove, somewhat irregular.

French Guiana, region of Saül and Nouragues.