Smallflower Indigoberry

Randia parvifolia Lam. Encyc. 3: 25. 1789
Gardenia parvifolia Dietr. Lex. Nachtr. 3: 441. 1817.
A shrub, the branches brownish or grayish, the branchlets short, stout, divaricate, scaberulo-puberulent when young, bearing at the apex 2 or 3 slender spines 5-8 mm. long; stipules minute, deltoid, acuminate, deciduous, brownish, pilose within at the base; leaves sessile or on petioles 1.5 mm. long or shorter, the blades obovate-oblong to orbicular, 3-12 mm. long, 3-9 mm. wide, acute or rounded and abruptly decurrent at the base, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous, puncticulate above, lustrous, the lateral nerves obsolete or obscure, the margin plane or subrevolute; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx and hypanthium glabrous or ciliate, 2 mm. long, the 5 calyx-lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, much shorter than the hypanthium; corolla 4-5 mm. long, glabrous outside, the tube cylindric, the throat densely white-barbate, the 5 lobes obovate, as long as the tube, obtuse or rounded ; fruit globose, 6 mm. in diameter, smooth, the pericarp thick and hard; seeds 5-7, about 4 mm. long.
Type locality: .Santo Domingo.
Distribution: Hispaniola.

Randia parvifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Lam. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1789.