Malpighia verrucifolia A. Pool, Novon 31: 239. 2023
Trees, treelets, or shrubs, 3—6 (--10) m; young branchlets tomentose, trichomes subsessile, tortuous to sinuous, caducous, and longer-stalked trichomes with sinuous trabeculae, the trabeculae soon lost and the stalks very thick and persisting after the loss of the trabeculae, visible at 10x, eventually deciduous. Todas las hojas en brotes nuevos, delgados y alargados, pares sucesivos separados por entrenudos, láminas de las hojas más grandes elípticas, 5.5--9 cm de largo y 2.2--5 cm de ancho, agudas o obtuse then abruptly short-acuminadas en el ápice (rarely obtuse) en el ápice, cuneadas en la base, tomentosas en el envés with trichomes subsessile with trabeculae tortuous to sinuous, caducous, and longer-stalked T-shaped trichomes with trabeculae sinuous, the trabeculae caducous and the stalks very thick and persisting after the loss of the trabeculae, visible at 10x. Inflorescencia aplicado-tomentosa o subserícea, corymbiform con 2–6 flores, pedúnculo de la inflorescencia 3—4 mm de largo; cáliz con 7--10 glándulas; pétalos abaxialmente pilosos en la quilla, reportedly red; 2 stamens with filaments much more robust than other 8 (anthers not seen); ovario piloso, not lobed, los carpelos completamente connados, 2 styles bowed outward from base, apically uncinate, the third style more or less straight and erect with apex flabellate. Only young fruit seen, drupes, to 13 mm, 3 pyrenes connate, scattered tomentose
Rare, deciduous forest, in Nicaragua known only from Reserva Natural Miraflor, Estelí and Isla Zapatera, Granada; 500--1170 m; fl nov; Estrada 42, Rueda 12119; Honduras y Nicaragua. This species was treated as a hybrid between Malpighia stevensii and M. verrucifolia in the printed Flora.