Bunchosia mesoamericana W.R. Anderson, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 23: 66. 2001.

Shrubs or trees, 3—8 (12) m, young branchlets developing lenticels on flower-bearing portions, sparsely (rarely densely) sericeous, rapidly glabrescent. Larger leaves (6.5) 8.5—14.5 (17.5) cm de largo y 3.3--7 cm de ancho, generally elliptic, less frequently oblanceolate or lanceolate, abaxial surface scattered to abundantly tomentose, patchily glabrescent, sometimes retained only on midrib, trichomes T-shaped, sessile to longest stalks 0.03—0.1 (0.15) mm, longest trabeculae 0.75—1.5 mm, sinuous and straight and/or tortuous, abaxial glands per side of midrib (0) 1 proximal and closer to midrib than margin or halfway between, less frequently with an additional 1—3 more distal more or less in a row closer to margin than midrib or halfway between, most proximal 0.5—1.5 mm; stipules 0.5—1 mm; petioles (1.5) 2.5--9 mm. Inflorescences from axils with leaves present, (or if rarely lost, from current leaf-bearing portion of branchlet), single, simple pseudoraceme, pseudoracemes 5—11 cm with 8--24 flowers, bracts (excluding the most proximal) 1--2 mm, peduncles (0.5) 0.75--2 mm (to 3.5 mm in fruit), bracteoles 0.75—1 (1.5) mm, both bracteoles per pair subtending each flower eglandular or one bracteole (rarely both) with one gland or an enlarged keel, bracteole gland ca. 0.5 (--0.75) mm, decurrent, pedicel 2—5.5 mm (to 10 mm in fruit). Flowers with sepals eglandular, glands very poorly developed to 0.75 mm long, or glands normally developed, normal sepal glands 1.25—2.6 mm, sepals extending 0.75—1.5 mm beyond glands, loosely cupping to spreading away from flower bud prior to anthesis, abaxial surface glabrous or medially or basally with few trichomes, marginally ciliate; ovary 2-locular, tomentose, styles connate, tomentose, stigma lobes 2, equal, connate, or perhaps sometimes slightly separating with age. Mature fruit 10--20 mm de largo y 10--20 mm de ancho, 2-locular, globose, unlobed, with few scattered trichomes, smooth, dull, orange to red, apex rounded.

Uncommon, matorrales y bosques secos, zona norcentral; 200–800 m; fl abr--jul, fr ago; Stevens 30069, 38005, Guatemala. Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Bunchosia mesoamericana was treated as Bunchosia sp. A. by Anderson in the print version of the Flora.