 Each carpel has one or two aromatic red seeds.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.