They have three cream colored sepals, truncate at the base and apiculate at apex and six yellow-green petals.

[2][3][4] This is an endemic tree of Antioquia department, where it grows in humid forests in the pre-montane and low montane in a region known as Alto de Ventanas between the municipalities of Briceño, Valdívia and Yarumal.

It is a canopy tree and can be found on grazing lands and on the edge of small forest fragments using for protection of water courses.

[4] This species is listed as Critically Endangered (CR) in the Red Book of Plants of Colombia[5] due to its presence is limited to only one locality smaller than 100 square kilometers.

The local habitat is fragmented and degraded, in part by pasture and dairy farming use.