Comprehensive Description
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Rondeletia glauca Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 329. 1861
Shrub or small tree, 2-5 meters high, the branches sericeous; stipules ovate-oblong, acute, deciduous, stout; leaves opposite, the petioles 6-12 mm. long, the blades spatulate-oblong or obovate, 5-9 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. wide, tapering at the base, obtuse at the apex, rigid-coriaceous, minutely strigillose when young, glabrate above in age ; inflorescence axillary, capitate, short-pedunculate, the 4 bracts united at the base, ovate; calyx-lobes 5, ovate or oblong, acute, much longer than the hypanthium, half as long as the corolla or longer; corolla pilose outside, the tube stout, cylindric, 6-8 mm. long, the lobes rounded, puberulent within, the throat annularthickened; fruit globose, 4—5 mm. in diameter, densely sericeous.
Type locality: Rocky woods, Pedro Valley, St. Anns, Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Rondeletia glauca: Brief Summary
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Rondeletia glauca is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica.
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