Rondeletia laurifolia Sw.

Rondeletia laurifolia Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 363. 1797
Shrub or tree, 1-12 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayishbrown, rimose, densely and minutely whitish-strigillose when young but soon glabrate, the internodes very short; stipules broadly deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, acute or acuminate, rigid, erect, sparsely strigillose or glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 0.7-1.8 cm. long, minutely strigillose or glabrate, the blades elliptic to elliptic-oval, 8-15 cm. long, 3-6.5 cm. wide, obtuse or acute at the base, often abruptly short-acuminate, acute or acuminate at the apex, chartaceous-coriaceous, dark-green and lustrous above, glabrous, beneath slightly paler, strigillose along the veins, elsewhere glabrous or nearly so, the veins plane or sulcate above, the costa stout, prominent beneath, the lateral veins slender, prominulous, 6-8 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, loosely cymose-paniculate, many-flowered, 6-15 cm. long, the branches strigillose, the peduncles 1.5-6 cm. long, the flowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate; bracts sometimes foliaceous, usually lance-subulate, the bractlets triangular, minute; hypanthium 1—1.3 mm. long, subglobose, very densely and minutely whitish-strigillose; calyx-lobes 5, minute, deltoid, shorter than the hypanthium, usually glabrate, erect; corolla brownish-yellow, densely whitishtomentulose outside, the tube obconic, 1.5 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, nearly or quite as long as the tube, tomentulose within, spreading; anthers about 0.5 mm. long, subexserted, ovoid-oblong; seeds winged.
Type locality: Jamaica, in thickets.
Distribution: Jamaica.

Rondeletia laurifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Sw. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1797.