Rondeletia pallida Britton

Rondeletia pallida Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 358. 1910
Tree, 6-10 meters high, the branches stout, terete or compressed, grayish-brown, sparsely strigillose when young, the internodes short; stipules triangular, cuspidate, 3-6 mm. long, rigid, erect, brown, sparsely strigillose or glabrate outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles slender or stout, 1-2.5 cm. long, the blades oblong-oval, narrowly elliptic, ellipticoblong, or lance-oblong, 6.5-18 cm. long, 1.7-7 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, acute to attenuate at the apex, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, bright-green above, glabrous or when young very sparsely slender-pilose, paler and brownish beneath, sparsely and minutely pilosulous or glabrate, the venation plane above, prominent beneath, the costa slender, the lateral veins slender, 6 or 7 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane or nearly so; inflorescence axillary, loosely cymose-paniculate or subracemose, 2-6 cm. long, the peduncles slender, equaling or shorter than the petioles, the flowers few, the pedicels 2-5 mm. long; bracts and bractlets linear-subulate, 4 mm. long or shorter, sparsely appressedpilose; hypanthium glabrous or sparsely strigillose; calyx-lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, attenuate, erect; corolla white or yellowish, glabrous or puberulent outside, the tube cylindric, 7-9 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick, scarcely ampliate above, the throat annularthickened, the 5 lobes rounded, 2-2.5 mm. long, spreading, puberulent within; anthers included, 1 mm. long; capsule didymous-globose, 4 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, glabrous; seeds flat, irregular, broadly winged, brownish, reticulate.
Type locality: Woodlands, southeastern foothills of the John Crow Mountains, Jamaica, at an altitude of 350 meters.
Distribution: Vicinity of the type locality.

Rondeletia pallida (lat. Rondeletia pallida) - boyaqotukimilər fəsiləsinin rondeletia cinsinə aid bitki növü.

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

Rondeletia pallida là một loài thực vật thuộc họ Rubiaceae. Đây là loài đặc hữu của Jamaica. Chúng hiện đang bị đe dọa vì mất môi trường sống.