TYPE: COLOMBIA. Santander, municipio San Vicente de Chucurí, Vereda Mérida Alta, sector Varsovia, 1601 m, 6°49'19.2''N, 73°23'20.0''O, 21.XI.2021, fl, P. Quiroga y G. Zabala 84 (holotype: JBB!, isotypes: COL!, HUA!, JAUM!, UIS!).Caryodaphnopsis yariguiensis is similar to C. fieldii, but can be differentiated from this species by the elliptic leaves, with acute apex, outer tepals <2 mm long, fertile stamens <2 mm long, with glands located in the middle to basal portion of the filament, fertile stamens of outer whorl ≤2.1 mm long, and pistil ≤2.6 mm long.Trees 8-20 m tall, to 1.1 m in diameter at breast heigh (DBH), bark fissured, flaking off in plates; internodes 2.4-5 cm long; distal internodes rectangular and flat, lax shortly yellow pubescent, glabrescent when mature; basal nodes oblong, glabrous; apical buds densely sericeous, trichomes filiform 0.5-0.6 mm long, leaves opposite; leaf blade 8.8-22 × 5-8.5 cm, elliptic, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, thin coriaceous, base acute or obtuse, apex obtuse, acute or slightly acuminate, margin entire, glabrous on the upper surface, lax sericeous over midrib and veins on the lower surface when young, glabrous when mature; trinerved or slightly triplenerved ca. 4 mm upward the base, midrib and secondary veins impressed on the upper surface, elevat-ed on the lower surface, only one pair of secondary veins, straight to apex, with 25-28 pairs tertiary veins starting on the midrib, 13-16 pair of tertiary veins, starting on the sec-ondary veins, petiole 14-25 × 1.2-4 mm, adaxially canicu-late to the apex, pubescence white adpressed, glabrescent when mature; inflorescence 4-8 cm long, panicle, axillary, sericeous, central rachis with one to several racemes start-ing on the same node of ramification, each raceme with-out branchlets or with one ramification level; each fascicle up to 6-flowered; bracts not seen, bracteoles 0.5-0.7 mm long, triangular, densely sericeous on both sides; flowers 3.6-4 mm long in bud, cream; pedicels 2.5-5.8 mm long, dense to sparsely adpressed yellow pubescent; tepals 6, in two strongly unequal whorls (persisting in fruit); the out-er 3, 1-1.1 × 1.16-1.18 mm, ovate to wide-ovate, densely 11Mendoza-Cifuentes et al.: Nuevas especies de Caryodaphnopsis de ColombiaActa Botanica Mexicana 128: e1829 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.21829/abm128.2021.1829Acta Botanica Mexicana 128: e1924 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.21829/abm128.2021.1924Acta Botanica Mexicana 130: e2263 | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.21829/abm130.2023.2263sericeous externally, glabrous internally; the inner 3, 2.9-3 × 1.9-2.2 mm, ovate, thin-chartaceous, not veined, dense-ly sericeous on both surfaces, trichomes subulate, ca. 0.3 mm long; stamens 12 (9 fertile), filaments stout, covered by subulate trichomes (0.3-0.4 mm long); the outer whorl with 6 fertile stamens, 2-2.1 mm long, anther 0.7-1 × 0.8-0.9 mm, 4-celled in two rows; inner whorl with 3 stamens in front of outer tepals, 1.7-1.9 mm long, filament with two globose glands, 0.5-0.7 × 0.3-0.4 mm, attached at the middle (ca. 0.5 mm above the base), anthers 0.6-0.7 × 0.4-0.5 mm, 4-celled in two lateral rows; staminodes located in internal whorl, opposite to internal tepals, 1.5-1.6 mm long, anthers not celled; pistil 2.4-2.6 mm long, 1.1-1.2 mm diameter, sparsely adpressed pilose from the middle to the apex; style 0.9-1 mm long; stigma slightly capitate; fruit a globose berry, 2.5-2.8 cm diameter, green at immaturity, black purple when mature, seed one.