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Melicope makahae

(B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone (1989)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Melicope

alani, alani kuahiwi

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or shrubby trees up to 3 m tall.

Stems: New growth and young branches densely puberulent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades narrowly ovate to elliptic, 9.5–12 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide. Apex bluntly acute or slightly rounded. Base cuneate. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces densely puberulent with strongly appressed, extremely fine hairs, these mixed with a fine white waxy scurf, and glandular punctate, green on upper surface; lower surfaces grayish green, coriaceous. Margins usually revolute, margins entire. Primary lateral veins usually 8–12 pairs, slightly raised on lower surface, connected by an arched vein 1–5 mm from margin, venation pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern. Petioles 10–22 mm long, densely puberulent. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1–7 in densely grayish puberulent cymes, peduncles 10–30 mm long, pedicels 5–10 mm long, bracteoles lanceolate, 1.5–3 mm long, densely grayish puberulent, bracts small, opposite. Calyx of 4 sepals; sepals ovate, 2.5–3 mm long, sparsely to densely grayish puberulent, imbricate. Corolla of 4 petals, valvate; petals deltate, ca. 5 mm long, densely puberulent on both sides or only externally. Stamens rudimentary in pistillate flowers, Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, distinct, reduced but always present in functionally pistillate flowers. Ovary superior, glabrous, ovary 4-celled and 4-lobed, carpels connate, only slightly distinct at apex to almost entirely distinct; ovules 2 per cell, hemitropous, 1 ascending; style 1, terminating in 4 short stigmatic branches.

Fruit: Fruit dark green; 20–24 mm wide; of distinct follicles 10–15 mm long; exocarp and endocarp glabrous; the carpels dehiscing along the upper suture; exocarp. Seeds 2 per follicle; ca. 5 mm long; glossy black when ripe; crustaceous; ovoid; sometimes angled from compression; embryo straight in fleshy endosperm; radicle short; cotyledons compressed; ovate; putamen brown; warty.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurring in mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 670–1,220 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Taxon 38: 121 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1194 (O [as Pelea makahae]); Hartley & Stone 1989:121 (COMBNOV, Syn. P. makahae = M. makahae)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R. 2485 Oahu US 4/7/1993
2 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 17213 Oahu PTBG 6/24/2000
3 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 5061 Oahu PTBG 1/8/1987
4 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2348 Oahu PTBG 2/6/1993
5 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood, s. p. perlman & j. lau 2348 Oahu US 2/6/1993
6 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN w. l. wagner, j. lau & c. imada 6904 Oahu US 3/11/2000
7 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W. L.; Lau, J.; Imada, C. 6904 Oahu US 3/11/2000
8 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P.; Lau, J. 2348 Oahu US 2/6/1993
9 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood 2485 Oahu US 4/7/1993
10 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Wood, K. 16637 Oahu US 6/12/1999
11 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 5474 Maui US 3/24/1987
12 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN W. L. Wagner, J. Lau & C. Imada 6904 Oahu US 3/11/2000
13 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman & k. wood 16637 Oahu US 6/12/1999
14 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Near crestline in Metrosideros community PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takeuchi, W.N. 2130 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
15 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pearsall, g.a. collector number: s.n. Oahu BISH 10/21/1954
16 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing near the Hesperomannia site PRESERVED_SPECIMEN takeuchi, w.n. collector number: 2122 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
17 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wooded slope PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 17615 Oahu BISH 3/31/1935
18 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Under a low stature Acacia - Metrosideros camopy PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takeuchi, W.N. Waianae 13a Oahu BISH 12/11/1983
19 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takeuchi, W.N. 2117 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
20 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information basalt mesic cliffs with Eragrostis grandis, and forested slopes PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 7844 Oahu PTBG 6/11/1999
21 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information basalt mesic cliffs with Eragrostis grandis, and forested slopes . PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 7833 Oahu PTBG 6/11/1999
22 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 5474 Oahu PTBG 8/24/1987
23 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Marc Appelhans MA614 Oahu PTBG 9/19/2016
24 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing near the Hesperomannia site PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takeuchi, W.N. 2122 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
25 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On very steep slope of ridge leading down into Makaha Valley, from well known Pinnacle Rocks w/ Pleomele forbesii, Cyanea membranacea, Schinus invading. Scattered trees around W. end of Saddle area especially ner Dome shaped ridge by Pinnacle rocks PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 5061 Oahu BISH 1/8/1987
26 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Pearsall, G.A. s.n. Oahu BISH 10/21/1954
27 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wooded slope PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 17615 Oahu BISH 3/31/1935
28 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On very steep slope of ridge leading down into Makaha Valley, from well known Pinnacle Rocks w/ Pleomele forbesii, Cyanea membranacea, Schinus invading. Scattered trees around W. end of Saddle area especially ner Dome shaped ridge by Pinnacle rocks PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 5061 Oahu BISH 1/8/1987
29 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Near Rollandia longiflora colony w/ Cyanea membranacea, Psychotria, Ohia, Syzygium, Guava, Maile PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 5474 Oahu BISH 3/24/1987
30 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN takeuchi, w.n. collector number: 2110 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
31 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Under a low stature Acacia - Metrosideros camopy PRESERVED_SPECIMEN takeuchi, w.n. wagner, w.l.; yee, r.s.n.; obata, j. collector number: waiane_13a Oahu BISH 12/11/1983
32 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing ner the Hesperomannia site PRESERVED_SPECIMEN collector number: 2122 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
33 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN takeuchi, w.n. collector number: 2117 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
34 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takeuchi, W.N. 2110 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
35 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information wet cliffs PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pearsall, g.a. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 10/21/1954
36 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Near crestline in Metrosideros community PRESERVED_SPECIMEN takeuchi, w.n. collector number: 2130 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
37 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing ner the Hesperomannia site PRESERVED_SPECIMEN 2122 Oahu BISH 3/31/1985
38 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Acacia koa-Metrosideros mesic forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 16637 Oahu PTBG 6/12/1999
39 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Low wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN W. L. Wagner 6904 Oahu PTBG 3/11/2000
40 Melicope makahae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2485 Oahu PTBG 4/7/1993
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