Comprehensive Description
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Rondeletia harrisii Urban, Symb. Ant. 6: 43. 1909
Shrub or small tree, up to 4 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish, glabrous; stipules triangular, about 2 mm. long, acuninate, erect, glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, sessile, the blades elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 6-13 cm. long, 1.5-4.5 cm. wide, subcordate at the base, acuminate to attenuate at the apex, chart aceous, glabrous, green above, paler beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins slender, 5-9 on each side, subarcuate, laxly anastomosing; inflorescence axillary, corymbosepaniculate, the peduncles 2-3.5 cm. long, the pedicels 0.5-4 mm. long; bracts minute, ciliate; hypanthium glabrous; calyx-lobes 5, triangular, about 0.5 mm. long, acute, ciliolate; corolla brownish-yellow, glabrous outside, the tube 7 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded; anthers and style included; capsule subglobose, 3-5 mm. long, dark-brown, sericeous at the apex; seeds numerous, flat, winged, the wings irregularly dentate.
Type locality: Wooded hills northeast of Dolphin Head, Jamaica. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Rondeletia harrisii: Brief Summary
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Rondeletia harrisii is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica.
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