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Notes:
This species was described based on limited material with incomplete flowers, and is not fully known. It has smaller stipules, leaves, capsules, and flowers than Condaminea corymbosa, and leaves with developed petioles and obtuse bases. This species is distinct in these features from Condaminea corymbosa as generally characterized, however some plants with immature fruits and flowers that appear to have opened prematurely are not dissimilar. Some sterile Condaminea plants have similarly small leaves and stipules (e.g., Perea et al. 1130, 1149, 1216, Pasco, Peru) but most of their leaves are truncate to cordulate at the base. Condaminea elegans thus is subtle to separate from Condaminea corymbosa, however it is found in an area with some other apparently locally endemic Rubiaceae species (e.g., Pentagonia australis) and may be distinct. Delprete suggested in the protologue that this species may be better classified in Rustia, however the stipules of Condaminea elegans are bilobed for half or more their length while the stipules are triangular in all the Rustia species so far known.
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