Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Randia induta Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 1377
1926.
Branches slender, grayish, the branchlets slender, divaricate, puberulent when young, leafy at the apex and bearing 2 stout spines 7-13 mm. long; stipules rounded-ovate, acuminate, 2 mm. long, glabrate outside, pilose within; petioles slender, 4-8 mm. long, short-pilose or puberulent; leaf-blades oblong-obovate or rhombic-obovate, 5-9 cm. long, 2.5-4.3 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, membranaceous, green above, glabrous, the costa impressed, the other venation prominulous, slightly paler beneath, copiously puberulent, the lateral'nerves prominulous, 6-11 on each side, the margin plane; fruits terminal on short lateral spurs, solitary, sessile, globose, 7-10 mm. in diameter, smooth, glabrate, the pericarp very thin; seeds usually 4, oval or rhombic, 5 mm. long, brown.
Type locality: Cayacal, Guerrero. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY