Blakea reflexa is characterized by its hemiepiphyticshrubby habit, branchlets, leaves and flowers with tomen-tose-lanate indumentum of elongated moderately rough -ened and tortuous trichomes, isophyllous and basally nervedleaves, bracts free, foliose, trinervate, outer pair reflexed infruit, exceeding the hypanthium, anthers free and yellow, andanther connectives with thickened dorso-basally and bluntlydeflexed appendages. Closely resembles Blakea intricata (Al-meda) Penneys & Almeda from Costa Rica and Panama, butdiffers in the isophyllous and basally nerved leaves (vs. aniso-phyllous and plinerved in B. intricata), tomentose-lanate in-dument (vs. hirsute), smaller bracts, and widely rounded ca-lyx lobes (vs. linear-oblong). Other similar species are Blakeafoliacea Gleason and B. venusta Kriebel, Almeda & A. Estra-da due to bract morphology; however, these have connateanthers (vs. free in B. reflexa).