Rondeletia insularis Britton

Rondeletia insularis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 28. 1917
Shrub, about 2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, rimose, densely grayish-pilose when young; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded, the petioles stout, about 2 mm. long, sericeous-strigillose, the blades obovate, cuneate-obovate, or oval-oblong, 1.7-3 cm. long, 0.7-1.3 cm. wide, acute to attenuate at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, minutely apiculate, thick-coriaceous, dark-green above, dull, minutely pilosulous when young, glabrate in age, the venation obsolete, beneath brownish, strigose along the veins, grayish-puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 3 or 4 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the secondary veins prominulous, reticulate, the margins revolute ; flowers axillary, solitary, the peduncles stout, 2-3 mm. long; bracts and bractlets minute, deltoid; calyx-lobes ovate-deltoid, 1 mm. long, obtuse, sericeous; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. in diameter, densely tomentulose.
Type locality: Vicinity of Pueblo Romano, Cayo Romano, Camaguey, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Rondeletia insularis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Britton miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1917.