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Melicope hiiakae

(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: Shrub or tree minutely puberulent, glabrate; leaves, petioles, and branches glabrous.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades elliptic to ovate or obtuse. Margins entire. Petioles filiform, 9–21 mm long, 1 mm thick; base elliptical plates cuneate or subrounded at the apex, obtuse or rounded, 3.5–6.5 cm long and 2–3.5 cm wide, glabrous, the middle rib narrowly brown springing dorsally, lateral nerves ascending parallel to the surface, with a sublinear nucleus at a distance of 1 mm coalitis. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences axillary single–flowered cymes, up to 3.5 cm long in fruit, with a glabrous axes, peduncles 3–8 mm long, pedicels expanded below the calyx. Flowers perfect. Calyx of 4 sepals, imbricate. Corolla of 4 petals. Stamens 8. Ovary superior, 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: Capsules ca. 25 mm diameter; deeply 4-lobed up to (⅔ – ¾) the length of the fruit; sparsely puberulent at the base; glabrescent; endocarp sparsely aggregated with hirtellus trichomes at dorsal sutures. Green maturing to green and red. Seeds ovoid; ca. 5–6 mm long; seed coat black.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Koolau Range; Kipapa Gulch; Waipio; on southerly ridge in woods. In wet areas.

Elevation Range: 450–750 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: 122 (1989)

Other References

Stone, B. C. (1963). Studies in the Hawaiian Rutaceae, IV. New and Critical Species of Pelea A. Gray.

Hartley, T. G., & Stone, B. C. (1989). Reduction of Pelea with new combinations in Melicope (Rutaceae). Taxon, 38(1), 119-123.

Wagner et al. 1990:1206 (as Pelea hiiakae, syn. of P. wawraeana); Hartley & Stone 1989:122 (COMBNOV:Syn. P. hiiakae); Wagner & Herbst 1999:1894 (RESURRECT/O)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosidero-Dicranopteris linearis lowland wet forest. With Syzgium sandwicense, Machaerina angustifolia, Ilex anomala, Melicope oahuensis, Zanthoxylum oahuense, Antidesma platyphylla, Pritcardia martii, Clidemia hirta, Psidium cattleianum PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 23643 Oahu BISH 8/20/2013
2 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN F. Werny 68 UBC 1/7/1960
3 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, s. ching & j. lau 23643 Oahu US 8/20/2013
4 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood, J. Lau & S. Gon 5868 Oahu US 12/9/1996
5 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Ching, S.; Lau, J. 23643 Oahu US 8/20/2013
6 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood, j. lau & s. gon 5868 Oahu US 12/9/1996
7 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN S. P. Perlman, S. Ching & J. Lau 23643 Oahu US 8/20/2013
8 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Lau, J.; Gon, S. 5868 Oahu US 12/9/1996
9 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Kerr, M. M-2 Oahu BISH 11/10/1945
10 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On wooded ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hosaka, E.Y. 809 Oahu BISH 10/16/1932
11 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wilbur, r.l. collector number: 717 Oahu BISH 4/25/1948
12 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Native wet shrub land PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Ching, S. 20191021SCH01 Oahu BISH 10/21/2019
13 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wilbur, R.L. 717 Oahu BISH 4/25/1948
14 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN kerr, m. collector number: m-2 Hawaii BISH 11/10/1945
15 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On wooded ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hosaka, e.y. collector number: 809 Oahu BISH 10/16/1932
16 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Rainforest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Bryan Jr., E.H. 1553 Oahu BISH 3/23/1941
17 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Antidesma forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Grant, M.L. 7258 Oahu BISH 8/8/1934
18 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Kerr, M. 2 Oahu BISH 11/10/1945
19 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Rainforest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN bryan jr., e.h. collector number: 1553 Oahu BISH 3/23/1941
20 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Antidesma forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN grant, m.l. collector number: 7258 Oahu BISH 8/8/1934
21 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN kerr, m. collector number: 2 Oahu BISH 11/10/1945
22 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros- Dicranopteris linearis lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 23643 Oahu PTBG 8/20/2013
23 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros- Dicranopteris linearis lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 23642 Oahu PTBG 8/20/2013
24 Melicope hiiakae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros - Dicranopteris linearis wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 5868 Oahu PTBG 12/9/1996
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