It is currently known only from the type locality. With respect to the shape of the ovules, the new species belongs to the subgenus Pepinia and has probably some relationship to P. quesnelioides L. B. Smith, which is known only from southern Colombia (Puerto Limon, 900 m, Foster 2257). It differs from P. quesnelioides by the presence of a long (up to 130 cm), canaliculate, pale brown petiole, by the long, lanceolate blade, by the even, not strongly nerved, glabrous, curved, and 3.5-cm long sepals, and by the verrucose ovary which is not winged and which does not ascend abruptly. —SeeRauh 1986gp. 36(1): 1, 21-23
