Randia malacocarpa Standl.

Randia malacocarpa Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 202
1919.
A shrub about 1 meter high, and reported, probably in error, as a tree of 6-9 meters, the branches dark reddish-brown or grayish, the branchlets divaricate, stout, short-pilose when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout spines 0.6-1.5 cm. long, the leaves mostly crowded on very short lateral spurs; stipules ovate, acuminate, 1-2 mm. long, thick, brownish, glabrous or short-pilose outside, glabrous within; petioles stout, 3 mm. long or shorter, short-pilose; leafblades mostly ovate, ovate-oblong, or narrowly elliptic-oblong, rarely rounded-obovate, 2.55.5 cm. long, 0.8-2.5 cm. wide, acute to long-attenuate at the base, or rounded or obtuse and short-decurrent, usually acute at the apex, sometimes obtuse or rounded, often subapiculate, membranaceous or chartaceous, puberulent or scaberulous above, densely short-pilose beneath, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 3-5 on each side ; flowers perfect, terminal, sessile, solitary or clustered; calyx and hypanthium densely short-pilose, the hypanthium 2 mm. long, the 5 calyxlobes linear or oblong, 1-1.5 mm. long, acute or obtuse, spreading; corolla salverform, sparsely hirtellous outside, the tube 3-4 mm. long, ampliate above, the 5 lobes rounded, 2-3 mm. long, glabrous within, the throat naked; anthers subexserted; fruit globose, 1.2 cm. in diameter (or larger ?), smooth, densely velvety-pilose, the pericarp very thick and hard; seeds numerous.
Type locality: Near Acaponeta, Nayarit.
Distribution: Dry thickets and hillsides, southern Sinaloa to Colima; northern Honduras.

Randia malacocarpa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Standl. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1919.