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Rondeletia americana
Rondeletia americana is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub with dark green leaves and a white corolla.
The species is native to Saint Vincent, and was first described in 1753.
From the article Rondeletia americana on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Rondeletia americana is a shrub with slender branches. The leaves are dark green, elliptic-oblong or oblong-obovate, 6.5–10 centimetres (2.6–3.9 in) long, and 2–4 centimetres (0.79–1.57 in) wide. The leaves have 3–4 millimetres (0.12–0.16 in) stems. The inflorescence has many flowers. The flowers have short stems, or lack stalks. The floral cup has thin hairs. The calyx has five lobes. The corolla is white, and silky, with appressed hairs on the outside. The fruit is a spherical capsule, around 3 millimetres (0.12 in) in diameter.
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1123900.