Coccocypselum lanceolatum (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.

Tontanea canescens (Wilid.) Standley
Coccocipsilum repens H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3:316. 1819. Not C. repens Sw. 1788. Coccocipsilum canescens Willd.; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnaea 4: 139. 1829.
Branches stout, densely pilose-sericeous when young with yellow or whitish hairs ; stipules linear-subulate, 3-10 mm. long; petioles stout, 0.4-2.5 cm. long, densely pilose with long, appressed or sometimes spreading hairs; leaf-blades oblong, ovate-oblong, or broadly ovate, 2-8 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. wide, subcordate to obtuse at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, densely pilose above with short, subappressed, mostly yellowish hairs, densely pilose beneath with longer, whitish or yellow, appressed or somewhat spreading hairs, the lateral veins numerous, conspicuous, arcuate; heads densely many-flowered, on peduncles 1-6 cm. long; bracts often large and foliaceous; calyx and hypanthium densely long-pilose, the calyx-lobes oblong or ovate, 2-3 mm. long, foliaceous, usually obtuse, twice as long as the hypanthium; corolla purplish-blue, about 5 mm. long, densely pilose, the lobes oblong or lance-oblong, obtuse or acute, nearly as long as the tube; fruit densely pilose, 5-7 mm. in diameter, brightblue; seeds dark-brown, about 1.2 mm. broad.
Type locality: Near Popayan, Colombia.
Distribution: Guatemala to Peru and Brazil; reported from Oaxaca.