Shrubs of secondary habitats. Fruits globose, whitish. Seeds ovate or broadly elliptic to circular, flattened, 2.5 x 2 x 0.3 mm, golden-yellow, glossy, the transverse section narrowly elliptic or biconvex, the surface undulate-reticulate. Hilum a narrow, marginal slit; micropyle a very small marginal hole. Seed coat of 2 cell layers; exotesta with large cells, the cells square or rectangular in section, larger and more elongate toward margins of seed, the anticlinal walls undulate, the outer periclinal walls thin, the inner periclinal and anticlinal cell walls unequally thickened, lignified, with pores, the pores numerous at top, less numerous at base of cells; mesotesta crushed; endotesta a layer of small cells, the cells rectangular, compressed, with thickened walls. Endosperm copious, of 2-10 layers of cells surrounding embryo, the cells thin-walled. Embryo linear, curved, ca. 1.12 x 0.2 mm, the cotyledons approximately 1/3 length of hypocotyl-radicle axis.

Bat dispersers. Artibeus jamaicensis, Sturnira lilium, S. tildae.

Voucher specimens. Mori et al. 25246 (herbarium specimen), Peckham 146/2000 (fruits from bat feces).