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Cyanea habenata

(H.St.John) Lammers (1998)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Campanulaceae Genus: Cyanea

hāhā [haha]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrub, 2.4 m tall.

Stems: Stems branched, glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 11–20 cm long, 1.4–2.3 cm wide, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong. Apex acuminate. Base cuneate. Upper surfaces dark green, glabrous; abaxial surface light green, glabrous. Margins callose–serrulate, often revolute. Petioles 2.5-6.8 cm long, glabrous. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences 5–10–flowered, axillary; peduncle 25-28 mm long, glabrous; rachis 4–7 mm long, glabrous; bracts deciduous; pedicels 6–8 mm long; hypanthium 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., broadly obovoid, glabrous. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 5-lobed, lobes 0.5 mm long, deltate or shallowly deltate, distinct or rarely connate, the apex acute, tube adnate to ovary. Corolla zygomatic, 22–28 mm long, white faintly tinged with purple, glabrous; tube 13 mm long, 2 mm diam. at middle, gently curved, dorsally cleft for about half its length; dorsal lobes 15 mm long, 1.7 mm wide, linear, the apex acuminate; ventral lobes 11 mm long, 2 mm wide, linear, basally connate for 6 mm, the apex acuminate. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes, connate; staminal column exserted; filaments distinct or connate above, attached to the epigynous nectary disk or to base of corolla, rarely adnate to corolla tube; filament tube 23 mm long, glabrous; anther tube 2 mm diam., the surfaces glabrous; dorsal anthers 6 mm long; ventral anthers 4.8 mm long, with tufts of hairs at apex, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, coherent but separating after anthesis or connate and forming a tube into which pollen is shed. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovule placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed, wet or dry, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Berries unknown. Seeds unknown.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Novon 8: 33 (1998)

Other References

St. John 1987b:342 (SPNOV/K [as Delissea habenata], DESCR); Lammers 1998:33 (COMBNOV:Syn. D. habenata = Cyanea habenata, DESCR)/Herbst & Wagner 1999:16; Lammers 2004:100 (KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Dicranopteris/Diplopterygium lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 1054 Kauai PTBG 10/18/2006
2 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Open forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & m. query 12037 Kauai US 8/10/2006
3 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN N. Tangalin & E. Griffin-Noyes 2902 Kauai US 11/19/2011
4 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN n. tangalin & e. griffin-noyes 2902 Kauai US 11/19/2011
5 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 17254 Kauai US 8/8/2000
6 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Tangalin, N.; Griffin-Noyes, E. 2902 Kauai US 11/19/2011
7 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Dicranopteris-Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Wet Forest Diplopteryglum, Selaginella, Syzygium, Psychotria, Ilex anomala, Broussaisia, Perrottetia, Kadua affinis, Bidens, Smilax, Dubautia, Pritchardia limahuliensis, Myrsine, Melicope wawraeana, Machaerina, PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Tangalin, N. 2902 Kauai BISH 11/19/2011
8 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Open forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Query, M. 12037 Kauai US 8/10/2006
9 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P. 17254 Kauai US 8/8/2000
10 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information wet mesic forest in west stream drainage; Metrosideros polymorpha, Sadleria cyatheoides, Coprosma, Boehmeria grandis, Dubautia, Clidemia hirta PRESERVED_SPECIMEN trauernicht, c. emmonds, m. collector number: 572 Kauai BISH 10/1/2008
11 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information wet mesic forest in west stream drainage; Metrosideros polymorpha, Sadleria cyatheoides, Coprosma, Boehmeria grandis, Dubautia, Clidemia hirta PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Trauernicht, C. 572 Kauai BISH 10/1/2008
12 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Dicranopteris/Diplopterygium lowland wet forest W/ Psychotria mariniana, Pritchardia perlmanii, Broussaisia arguta, Touchardia, Cyanea fissa, Bidens forbesii, Bidens campylotheca, Dubautia laxa subsp. hisute, Urera glabra, Dubautia knudsenii var. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Tangalin, N. 1054 Kauai BISH 10/18/2006
13 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN tangalin, n. hodel, d.; wood, k. collector number: 1054 Oahu BISH 10/18/2006
14 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In stream bed, 20 degree slope, dark porous wet soil, in partial shade. With ohia, uluhe, Pipturus, Cibotium, Eugenia, Psychotria, Hedyotis, Dubautia. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 224 Kauai BISH 9/27/1978
15 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Potted; grown under shade cloth. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 224 Oahu BISH 9/27/1978
16 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In stream bed, 20 degree slope, dark porous wet soil, in partial shade. With ohia, uluhe, Pipturus, Cibotium, Eugenia, Psychotria, Hedyotis, Dubautia. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 224 Kauai BISH 9/27/1978
17 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13250 Kauai PTBG 1/21/1993
18 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros open forest 2-10% cover @ 7-10 m tall. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 12037 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2006
19 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 17254 Kauai PTBG 8/8/2000
20 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Dicranopteris-Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Wet Forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 2902 Kauai PTBG 11/19/2011
21 Cyanea habenata (H.St.John) Lammers Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Native wet-mesic forest in West stream drainage. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Clay Trauernicht 572 Kauai PTBG 10/1/2008
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