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Notes:
This species can be recognized by its short deciduous stipules that are spathulate and truncate to rounded with deciduous glandes along their margins, together with medium-sized leaves that are shortly petiolate, shortly rounded to obtuse at the base, and lack crypt domatia; solitary pedunculate, well developed flowers and fruits; tubular well developed calyx limbs; white corollas with a well developed linear appendage on the tip of each lobe; and white subglobose fruits. Rudgea monofructus is similar in general to Rudgea skutchii. Rudgea monofructus is also similar to Rudgea trifurcata, and seems to replace it at higher elevations. An isotype specimen of Rudgea monofructus was reported in the protologue as deposited at MO, but this specimen has not yet been distributed from CR.
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