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Notes:
This species is characterized by its medium-sized petiolate leaves that sometimes have small pocket domatia, its ovate to ligulate rather well developed stipules with well developed glands along the top margin, its pedunculate several-flowered cymose inflorescences, its subsessile to pedicellate medium-sized flowers, its rather short subtruncate calyx limbs, its fleshy tubular white corollas, and its medium-sized subglobose to ellipsoid-oblong fruits, 7-10 mm long. Rudgea loretensis is similar to Rudgea cornifolia and Rudgea obesiflora and has been confused with both of these. This species was not recognized by Zappi (2006), but seems to be distinct.
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