Rondeletia fuertesii Urb.

Rondeletia fuertesii Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 396. 1912
Shrub, the branches stout, terete, grayish, densely and minutely yellowish-sericeous when young; stipules deltoid, about 2 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, minutely sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the short branchlets, the petioles stout, 1-2 or rarely 3.5 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval or oval-oblong, mostly 7-10 mm. long and 3-6 mm. wide, sometimes 17 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, acute or acutish at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, minutely apiculate, thick-coriaceous, yellowish-green above, densely and minutely appressed-pilose, the nervation obsolete, beneath densely and minutely whitishsericeous, the veins very thick and prominent, the lateral ones 2-5 on each side, ascending at an angle of 25-30°, the secondary veins reticulate, the margins plane; flowers axillary, solitary, the peduncles stout, 1-2 mm. long; bractlets linear-subulate, 1-2 mm. long; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, linear, subequal, 2.5 mm. long, acute, sericeous; corollatube cylindric, ampliate above, 4.5 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish hairs, glabrous within, the 4 lobes rounded, half as long as the tube, puberulent outside, glabrous within; anthers included, 1.5 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 3.5 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds angulate, about 0.8 mm. long, brown, reticulate, exalate. Type locality: Along the Duverge' River, Province of Barafaona, Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 75 meters.
Distribution: Hispaniola.

Rondeletia fuertesii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Urb. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1912.