Urophyllum urdanetense Elmer, LPB

Ordas, Jorge Anton D., Pinarok, Neil Alejandro A., Romeroso, Roanne B., Alejandro, Grecebio Jonathan D. & Banag-Moran, Cecilia I., 2019, A checklist of Rubiaceae species from Eastern Samar, Visayas, Philippines, Check List 15 (2), pp. 295-312 : 309

Urophyllum urdanetense Elmer, LPB 5 (1913) 1900.

Materials examined. Table 2.

Small to medium-sized shrub about 2–4 m high. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-ovate, coriaceous. Flowers not seen. Infructescences axillary, solitary, fruits glo- bose, red orange, with calyx remnants.

This species was only known from its type locality on Mount Urdaneta on the province of Agusan del Norte, Mindanao, where it occurrs in high elevation mossy forests. However, our record of this species in mediumelevation, primary rainforests of Eastern Samar might indicate a wider ecological preference. This species closely resembles Urophyllum memecyloides , another species also found in Eastern Samar, but differs in its much smaller leaves.