C. costaricensis Radlk. Gorgojo blanco, Gorgojo, Gorgojero Tree, to ca 8 (10) m tall; stems terete, conspicuously lenticellate, often flexuous, glabrous but with young stems tomentose. Leaves pinnate; petioles 1-6 cm long, tomentose to glabrate; petiolules ca 5 mm long; leaflets 3-7, obovate, rounded to truncate or emarginate at apex, acute at base, 6-17 cm long, 3.5-7 cm wide, densely white-tomentose below, glabrate above, serrate-dentate. Panicles dense, terminal or subterminal, racemose; sepals and petals 5; sepals ovate, tomentose, greenish; petals +/- obovate, white, to 2 mm long, villous, the blades fused to the scales laterally (deeply divided in middle); stamens 8, inserted on inner edge of disk; filaments villous below middle; disk fleshy, ca 0.7 mm high, tomentose; staminate flowers with the stamens exserted, 2.5-3 mm long, the ovary abortive, pubescent, lacking style; bisexual flowers with the stamens 1.5-2 mm long, only slightly exserted, the ovary ovoid, obtusely 3-angulate, with a stout style about as long as ovary, the style and ovary together ca 3 mm long; stigmas 3, recurved; ovary, style, and stigmas tomentose. Capsules obovate, +/- rounded to bilobed, short-stipitate, ca 1.5 cm long and 1 cm wide, pale greenish-tomentose or brown-tomentose outside, woolly inside; seeds oblong, more than 1 cm long, shiny black, the lower half covered with an orange aril. Croat 6696,11767. Occasional, on the northern side of the island along the shore. Flowers in the early rainy season (June and July). The fruits mature in September and October. The species is closest to C. latifolia. Costa Rica to Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia; West Indies. In Panama, known from tropical moist forest in the Canal Zone, Bocas del Toro, Panama, and Darién and from tropical wet forest in Colón.