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Notes:
This species is characterized by its medium-sized habit, its stipules united around the stem into a rounded to truncate tube with a group of glands near the base on each interpetiolar side, its petiolate elliptic to narrowly elliptic leaves, its pedunculate, cylindrical to racemiform, cymose inflorescences with the secondary axes short and ending in one small cyme of flowers, its somewhat small flowers, and its ellipsoid white fruits. This species has been suggested to be the same as Rudgea palicoureoides, but that species has broader leaves, shorter pyramidal inflorescences with well developed secondary axes, perhaps smaller rounder fruits, and a range at lower elevations in Brazil.
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