Scolosanthus crucifer C. Wright

Scolosanthus crucifer C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana
6: 126. 1869.
A densely branched shrub or small tree, the branches stout, grayish, the branchlets stout, olivaceous, papillose-scaberulous, the leaves mostly fasciculate, the spines stout, 8-15 mm. long, trifurcate at or below the middle, their lateral branches divaricate; stipules minute, deltoid; petioles 1-2 mm. long; leaf -blades broadlj' oval, oval-ovate, oval, elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 6-9 mm. long, 2.5-6 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, rounded to attenuate at the base, rigid-coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves obsolete, above green, lustrous, the costa prominulous, beneath pale and dull, the costa prominent, the margin revolute; flowers fasciculate, short-pedicellate; calyx and hypanthium 1.2 mm. long, glabrous, the calyx-lobes semiorbicular, ciliolate, less than half as long as the hypanthium; corolla 2.5-3 mm. long, the tube strongly arapliate above, glabrous outside, the lobes rounded, very short, erect.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Dry limestone hillsides, Oriente and Matanzas, and perhaps elsewhere in Cuba.

Scolosanthus crucifer là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được C.Wright miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1869.