Coccoloba efigeniana

Description: — Tree 10 ‒ 20 m tall; branch internodes 1 ‒ 8 × 4 ‒ 8 mm. Ochrea 1.4 – 3.7 cm long, densely pubescent to woolly, yellow-brown to dark brown trichomes, breaking irregularly. Leaves simple, alternate, petiole 1.7 – 3.0 × 3 – 7 mm, striated, pubescent, with yellow brown trichomes, inserted at base of the ochrea; leaf blade obovate to oblong-elliptical (15.4 –) 17.0 – 25.8 × 9.0 – 16.0 (– 19.2) cm, chartaceous, densely hirsutulous abaxially, glabrous to hirsutulous adaxially, with yellow ‒ brown trichomes, margin entire, apex obtuse to slightly acuminate, base cordate, venation pinnate, reticulate, (9 –) 10 – 14 pairs of primary nerves, prominent, pubescent to hirsutulous, with yellowbrown trichomes. Inflorescence panicle, spiked, terminal, 9.5 – 17.6 (– 20.0) cm long, densely hirtellous; rachis striate, pulverulent; ochreolae 0.6 – 0.8 mm long, membranous, pulverulent, apex rounded; flowers 1 (2 – 3) per fascicle, 2.2 – 3.0 mm long, tepals 5, 0.8 – 1.4 mm long, whitish. Fruit 8.0 – 8.5 mm long × 5 – 6 mm in diameter, obpyramidal, base truncate, brown, pilosulose. Achene, light brown; embedded in the accrecent hypanthium, almost completely covering the achene; tepals, covering the apex of the achene. Eponymy: — The specific epithet is in honor of Dr. Efigenia Melo an expert botanist in South American Coccolobas.