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Neraudia angulata

R.S.Cowan (1949)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Rosales Family: Urticaceae Genus: Neraudia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect shrubs 1.5–3 m tall.

Stems: Branches pubescent with erect and ± appressed hairs.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades elliptic, elliptic–ovate, or ovate, 7–15 cm long, 3–5.5 cm wide. Apex long-acuminate or acute. Base cuneate to rounded. Upper surfaces sparsely silky pubescent, the hairs somewhat spreading or appressed, 0.2–0.4 mm long; lower surfaces moderately silky pubescent, the hairs appressed or somewhat spreading, 0.3–0.6 mm long, their tips primarily directed toward apex and margins, grayish to greenish on lower surface, thin, with disciform cystoliths. Margins coarsely dentate above the middle or entire. Palmately 3-veined from base. Petioles 0.8–3 cm long, pubescent with appressed and spreading hairs. Stipules small, intrapetiolar.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary clusters, staminate flowers on pedicels 0–1 mm long; pistillate flowers sessile. Flowers unisexual (and the plants dioecious), actinomorphic. Calyx of staminate flowers silky pubescent, the hairs ascending, lobes 4, boat-shaped, the lobes 2–3.5 mm long, coherent in bud, separating at anthesis, pilose; pistillate Calyx conspicuously angled, silky pubescent, the hairs ascending to erect, also with some short, erect, uncinate hairs, apex 4-toothed, the teeth acuminate to long–acuminate. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 4 in staminate flowers, staminal filaments folded elastically in bud, reflexed when pollen is shed, strap–shaped, 2–5 mm long; anthers reniform, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Pollen white. Ovary superior (pistillate flowers), pseudomonomerous, 1-celled; ovule 1, basal; style 1; stigma 2–8 mm long, lacking receptive hairs on 1 surface. Staminate flower ovary vestigial and sterile.

Fruit: Achenes 1.5–2 mm long; angled; surrounded by the conspicuously angled and ridged; fleshy calyx; apical portion conical; not separated from basal portion by a constriction. Seeds 1 per achene; ovoid.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 450–825 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Only found in cultivation

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • 450-825 m
  • Description digitized by Tiffany Flood
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Neraudia ongulota can be divided into 2 largely sympatric but distinct varieties: var. angulata with lower leaf surface with primarily appressed hairs and entire margins; and var. dentata with lower leaf surface with hairs primarily somewhat spreading and margins of at least some of the leaves coarsely dentate above the middle.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Pacific Sci. 3: 255 (1949)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 17111 Oahu PTBG 5/11/2000
2 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2405 Oahu PTBG 4/4/1993
3 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C. N. 1828.O Oahu US 1912-00-00
4 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN otto degener, richard northwood LSU 11/8/1947
5 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood et al. 1210 Kauai US 9/12/1991
6 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 1828.o Oahu US 4/26/1912
7 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN John Obata s.n. Oahu PTBG 5/4/1992
8 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood et al. 1210 F 9/12/1991
9 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 3037 Oahu PTBG 3/1/1994
10 Neraudia angulata R.S.Cowan Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In mostly Alien veg. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 14078 Oahu PTBG 3/10/1994
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