Suberanthus brachycarpus (Griseb.) Borhidi & M. Fernández

Rondeletia brachycarpa (Griseb.) C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal
Acad. Habana 6: 122. 1869.
Ferdinandea brachycarpa Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 505. 1862.
Shrub, 3-4 meters high, the branches stout, terete, dark-brown or grayish, hirtellous or puberulent when young, the internodes usually very short; stipules triangular-subulate, 1-2 mm. long, erect, persistent, thick, brown; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. long, strigillose, the blades oval, elliptic-oblong, oblong, or obovate, 2-11 cm. long, 1-4.5 cm. wide, obtuse to attenuate at the base, acutish to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, dark-green above, lustrous, scaberulous, beneath paler, hirtellous or scaberulous, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral veins prominent or sometimes obsolete, 4-8 on each side, arcuate, divergent at an obtuse angle, the margins often revolute; inflorescence terminal, the flowers few or numerous, sessile or short-pedicellate, in small pedunculate cymes, these arranged in a pedunculate panicle 2.5-8 cm. long; bracts and bractlets minute; hypanthium densely whitish-strigillose ; calyxlobes 4, oval or oblong, about 1 mm. long, rounded or obtuse, erect; corolla white-strigillose outside, the tube 5-6 mm. long, slender below, dilated above, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes rounded, spreading, about 2 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 6-7 mm. long, glabrate, reddishbrown, coarsely lenticellate; seeds compressed, about 3 mm. lcng, yellowish, winged, the wing irregularly laciniate.
Type locality: Thickets near Santa Catalina, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Thickets and hillsides, Cuba and Hispaniola.

Rondeletia camagueyensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44:
30. 1917.
Shrub, about 3 meters high, the branchlets densely strigillose when young, the internodes short; stipules triangular, acute, about 3 mm. long; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, strigillose, 2-3 mm. long, the blades ovate-oval or elliptic-oval, 3-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, chartaceous, rounded to acutish at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, green above, scaberulous, the venation impressed, paler beneath, puberulent, short-pilose along the veins, the venation prominent, the lateral veins about 7 on each side; capsule subglobose, 4-6 mm. in diameter, dark-brown, coarsely lenticellate.
Type locality: Arroyo, savanna near Camaguey, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Suberanthus brachycarpus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được (Griseb.) Borhidi & M.Fernández Zeq. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1981.