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Notes:
This species is characterized by its truncate to rounded stipules with a medial group of glands on each interpetiolar site, medium-sized petiolate leaves, its pedunculate inflorescences that are usually regularly dichotomous, its somewhat well developed truncate stipules, its somewhat small corollas, and its medium-sized fruits. This species was treated by Steyermark as Rudgea laurifolia, but Zappi (2004) noted that it has an older name, which she transferred to this genus as Rudgea sclerocalyx. Rudgea sclerocalyx is similar to Rudgea palicoureoides and Rudgea wurdackii. Mueller named several varieties of Mapouria sclerocalyx, but these were later synonymized by Steyermark (1974).
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