Rondeletia microphylla Griseb.

Rondeletia microphylla Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 127. 1866
Shrub, 3-10 dm. high, much branched, the branches stout, terete, brownish, densely
hirtellous when young; stipules minute, triangular, acute, erect, persistent; leaves opposite or
ternate, often crowded, the petioles stout, about 1 mm. long, the blades obovate-oblong or
narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5-16 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, cuneate or obtuse at the base, acute or
obtuse at the apex, thin, densely hirtellous, or glabrate in age, dull-green above, slightly paler
beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins few, mostly obsolete, the margins plane
or subrevolute; inflorescence terminal, usually 1 -flowered, sometimes 3-flowered, the pedicels
slender, 2-13 mm. long; bracts elliptic or oblong, foliaceous, petiolate, the bractlets linear;
hypanthium densely hirtellous; calyx-lobes 5, oblanceolate or spatulate-linear, 3-6 mm. long,
obtuse, foliaceous, erect; corolla orange-red, hirtellous outside, the tube slender, 8-10 mm.
long, naked in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, 3.5-4 mm. long, spreading; capsule globose,
3-4 mm. in diameter, hirtellous.
Type locality: Western Cuba.
Distribution: Rocky stream banks, Pinar del Rio, Cuba.

Rondeletia microphylla là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Griseb. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1866.