Bunchosia macrophylla Rose ex Donn. Sm., Anales Inst. Fís.-Geogr. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica  9: 100. 1898.

Shrubs or trees, (1.5) 3—8 (12) m, young branchlets without apparent lenticels, densely velutinous, spreading-tomentose, spreading-sericeous, or villous, glabrescent in second year. Larger leaves (18) 21—48 cm de largo y (8) 10—23 cm de ancho, elliptic (rarely obovate), abaxial surface abundantly velutinous, persistent (rarely glabrescent), trichomes Y-shaped, sometimes with T-shaped trichomes and/or  “simple,” (“simple” trichomes 1—2.5 mm), stalks (0) 0.05 mm to longest stalks (0.2) 0.5—1.2 mm, longest trabeculae of T-shaped trichomes 0.75—1.5 mm and longest arms of Y-shaped trichomes (0.3) 0.5—1.5  mm, straight to slightly sinuous, abaxial glands per side of midrib 1—3 proximal and adjacent or closer to midrib than margin with an additional (6) 9—44 (--56) more distal randomly arranged, most proximal (0.5) 0.75—1.75 (2) mm; stipules (2.5--) 3.5—9 mm; petioles (6--) 9—20 (--27) mm. Inflorescences from axils with leaves present or lost but from, or immediately below, current leaf-bearing portion of branchlet, single, simple pseudoraceme, pseudoracemes 6—14.5 cm with 11--42 flowers, bracts (excluding the most proximal) (2.5) 3—5 (6) mm, peduncles (absent) 0.5—2 (--3.5) mm (similar in fruit), bracteoles 1.5—3 mm, one bracteole (rarely both) per pair subtending each flower with one gland, bracteole gland  0.75—1.8 mm, decurrent, pedicel 3—6.5 mm (to 9 mm in fruit). Flowers with sepals glands 1.75—3 mm, sepals extending 0.5—2 mm beyond glands, tightly appressed to flower bud prior to anthesis, abaxial surface entirely densely sericeous or with narrow glabrous rim; ovary 3-locular, tomentose or sericeous to nearly glabrous, styles connate, tomentose or sericeous to nearly glabrous, stigma lobes 3, equal, connate. Mature fruit 13--18 mm de largo y 17--24 mm de ancho, 3-locular, depressed globose, 2 or 3 well-defined lobes (rarely unlobed), with few to numerous trichomes, granulose, dull, orange to red, apex depressed to slightly apiculate.

Rare, evergreen forest, Río San Juan; 40—400 m; fl mar-abr, mature fr not seen; Toval 367, Urbina 155; Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.