Rondeletia saxicola Britton

Rondeletia saxicola Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 8. 1912
Shrub, about 4 meters high, the branches slender, terete or subangulate, reddish-brown, densely pilose when young with short appressed hairs, the internodes short; stipules sheathing, 6-12 mm. long, thin, brown, the lobes lance-ovate, cuspidate-attenuate, appressed-pilose outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles 6-12 mm. long, appressed-pilose, the blades obovate-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, 6-1 1 cm. long, 1.8-3 cm. wide, acute or attenuate at the base, acute at the apex, dark-green above and setose-pilose with short appressed hairs, the venation plane, beneath paler, setose-pilose along the veins with appressed hairs, short-pilose elsewhere, the lateral veins slender, prominulous, 5 or 6 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of about 45°, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, cymose-capitate, few-flowered, the peduncles 5-8 mm. long, the flowers sessile or nearly so; bracts and bractlets linearlanceolate, 5-8 mm. long; hypanthium densely pilose; calyx-lobes 4, ovate, acute, 3 mm. long, appressed-pilose; capsule globose, about 5 mm. in diameter, pilose.
Type locality: On cliffs, Somerset, Manchester, Jamaica. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

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