Rondeletia hirta Sw.

Rondeletia hirta Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788
Rondeletia hirsula DC. Prodr. 4: 408. 1830. Not. R. hirsula Sw. 1788.
Shrub or small tree, up to 4.5 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish, densely shaggy-pilose when young with long subfulvous hairs, the internodes short or elongate; stipules oblong-triangular, 6-11 mm. long, acute to attenuate, thick, erect, densely long-pilose outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-12 mm. long, densely pilose, the blades oval-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 7.5-19 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, rounded or subcordate at the base, acute or abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, chartaceous, dark-green and sublustrous above, copiously setose-pilose with long slender hairs or finally glabrate, the venation plane or impressed, slightly paler beneath, setose-pilose along the veins with long slender hairs, elsewhere sparsely short-pilose, the venation prominent, the lateral veins slender, 6-11 on each side, nearly straight, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, the peduncles slender, 1.5-6 cm. long, trichotomous, each branch bearing a capitate cyme of few or numerous, sessile or short-pedicellate flowers; bracts often foliaceous, 2 cm. long or shorter, the bractlets linear-subulate, 5-10 mm. long, long-pilose; hypanthium densely longpilose; calyx-lobes 5, linear-attenuate, 4-7 mm. long, pilose, erect; corolla long-pilose outside, the tube slender, 8 mm. long; anthers included; capsule globose, 5 mm. in diameter, brown, pilose; seeds flat, irregular, 1-2 mm. long, brown, reticulate, winged, the wing dentate.
Type locality: Jamaica.
Distribution: Jamaica.

Rondeletia hirta is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.