Rondeletia anguillensis, commonly known as the Anguilla bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a shrub with pale pink flowers and capsule fruits. The species is native to Anguilla.
Rondeletia anguillensis was described in 1987, and is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
Taxonomy Rondeletia anguillensis was described by Richard A. Howard and Elizabeth Anne Kellogg in 1987.
Distribution Rondeletia anguillensis is native to the wet tropical biome of north-west Anguilla. Its estimated extent of occurrence is . The species grows on limestone bedrock at elevations of .
Rondeletia anguillensis is the only plant species known to be endemic to Anguilla.
Description Rondeletia anguillensis is a shrub that grows up to high. The bark is smooth and greyish.
The leaf stems are long. The leaves are ovate to elliptical, long, and wide.
The flowers are in four parts. The calyx is bell-shaped, green, long, and has lobes. The lobes are long. The corolla is pale pink, salverform, and has long lobes. The corolla tube is long in short-styled plants, and long in long-styled ones.
The fruit is a globose capsule measuring in diameter. The seeds are long.
Conservation In 2014, the IUCN assessed Rondeletia anguillensis as Critically Endangered. It is threatened by urban development, feral goats, and the invasive Leucaena leucocephala. The species is not found in protected areas.
Around 5,131 individual plants are left in the wild.
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