Randia laetevirens Standl.

Randia laetevirens Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 1377
1926. A shrub 1-3 meters high, the branches grayish or brownish, the branchlets stout, divaricate, strigillose when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout ascending spines 0.8-1.5 cm. long, the leaves crowded on very short lateral spurs; stipules 3 mm. long or shorter, cuspidate from a deltoid base, strigillose or glabrate outside, glabrous within; petioles 5 mm. long or shorter, often obsolete; leaf-blades mostly obovate-oblong, sometimes obovate, oblong, oblong-oval, elliptic, or rarely suborbicular, 0.8-6 cm. long, 0.5-2.2 cm. wide, acute, acuminate, or attenuate at the base, rarely rounded, acute to rounded at the apex, often mucronulate, coriaceous at maturity, bright-green, glabrous, lustrous above, often whitish-punctulate, the venation prominent or prominulous, the lateral nerves plane or subimpressed beneath, 4—9 on each side, subdivaricate, the margin usually subrevolute; flowers perfect, terminal, sessile, usually clustered, 5-parted; calyx and hypanthium 1.5-3 mm. long, glabrous or obscurely scaberulous, the calyxlobes triangular-subulate, half as long as the tube or almost obsolete; corolla white, acute or acuminate in bud, glabrous outside, the tube 4—6.5 mm. long, cylindric, dilated upward, the throat naked, the lobes 2.5-4.5 mm. long, rounded-ovate, abruptly short-acuminate; anthers subexserted; fruit globose, 8-14 mm. in diameter, smooth or slightly rugose, glabrous, stramineous, the pericarp thick and hard; seeds few (5-7), 6-7 mm. long, dark-brown.
Type locality: Cerro de la Silla, near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Distribution: In dry thickets, Tamaulipas to Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Veracruz.

Randia laetevirens là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Standl. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1926.