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Lysimachia glutinosa

Rock (1910)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Ericales Family: Primulaceae Genus: Lysimachia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect or somewhat sprawling shrubs 6–20 dm tall.

Stems: Bark reddish brown, young stems viscid, glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, well-spaced. Blades oblanceolate to broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, 60–150 mm long, 15–45 mm wide. Apex acuminate. Base attenuate. Upper surfaces viscid when young, otherwise glabrous; blades firm–chartaceous, sessile. Margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers with a sweet fragrance, bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic, solitary in the leaf axils, 5–10-merous, pedicels stout, 25–56 mm long, elongating up to 75 mm long in fruit, viscid, otherwise glabrous, bracteate, bracteoles absent. Calyx of 5 sepals; Calyx lobes lanceolate to broadly so, 10–15 mm long, viscid with sessile glands, margins scarious. Corolla cream, campanulate, 18–25 mm long, the lobes obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as and opposite the corolla lobes; filaments connate ca. ½ their length, adnate to corolla tube; anthers dithecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; style 1.

Fruit: Capsules broadly ovoid to subglobose; thick and woody; 8–15 mm long; regularly dehiscent by 5–10 valves. Seeds black; irregularly rhomboid; angled; 1–1.7 mm long; seed coat crustaceous.

Ploidy: 2n = 72

Habitat: Diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 1,090–1,220 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 300 (1910)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1081 (K); Marr & Bohm 1997:268 (KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep slopes w/low mixed mesophytic forest of Metrosideros, Pelea, Xylosma & Pleomele. Preserved_Specimen Sparse shrub 1.5 m tall, branches decumbent; new growth glutinous; corolla white. Occasional. Lorence, D.H. 5126 Kauai BISH 1987-03-20
2 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist Metrosideros woods Preserved_Specimen 2 m simple shrub; flower tinged with orange pink, very sweet St.John, H. 22899 Kauai BISH 1947-12-21
3 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 17667 Kauai BISH 1928-07-04
4 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Partly sunny rainforest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 23851 Kauai BISH 1955-09-07
5 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rather dry open forest undergrowth. Preserved_Specimen Stoloniferous shrub 2 m high. MacDaniels, L.H. 810 Kauai BISH 1927-02-17
6 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details by rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Flowers pale cream. Degener, O. 21561 Kauai BISH 1952-01-07
7 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa - Metrosideros plymorpha - Dicranopteris linearis montane mesic 10% open, 8-10m tall canopy, 40% Acacia koa, 20% Metrosideros polymorpha, 20% tall Psychotria mariniana with 5-7 m tall understory canopy of Planchonella sandwicensis, Bobea brevipes merving into up Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1 m tall, stems yellow-brown, old capsules, much variability with this species in area, sympatric with L. Kalalauensis, possibly hybridiztion causing local variability Wood, K.R. 15118 Kauai BISH 2012-07-25
8 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1962-01-19
9 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On edge of cliff in wet forest. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 1 m tall; buds & pedicels glutinous; corolla white, leaves flushed distally w/pink. Fosberg, F.R. 41467 Kauai BISH 1961-03-11
10 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Among shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21465 Kauai BISH 1950-02-01
11 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In semi-open mesphytic forest of Ohia-Cheirodendron. Preserved_Specimen Shrub to 2 m; lvs alternate, oblanceolate, tip acuminate, 9-10 cm long by 3 cm; inflorescence an axillary spike; capsule on peduncle to 6 cm long; sepals persistant & capsules galbrous sticky. Spence, G. 174 Kauai BISH 1973-07-23
12 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Among staghorn fern in stunted forest. Assoc. w/Metrosideros & Syzygium, locally abundant. Preserved_Specimen Herb 0.8 m high; flws whitish & waxy. Gagné, W.C. 546 Kauai BISH 1970-08-25
13 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa - Metrosideros polymorpha - Dicranopteris linearis montane mesic 10% open, 8-10 m tall canopy, 40% Acacia koa, 20% Metrosideros polymorpha, 20% tall Psychotria mariniana with 5-7 m tall understory canopy of Planchonella sandwicensis, Bobea brevipes merging into up Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1 m tall, stems yellow-brown, old capsules, much variability with this species in area, sympatric with L. kalalauensis, possible hybridization causing local variability Wood, K.R. 15116 Kauai BISH 2012-07-25
14 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Pushing up through scrub uluhe. Preserved_Specimen 3 ft plant; seed capsules sticky. Hobdy, R.W. 69 Kauai BISH 1969-01-16
15 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details side of road Preserved_Specimen 5-6' tall; flowers cream colored, scent similar to magnolia. Plews, J.H.R. Kauai BISH 1979-02-20
16 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa- Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis mesic- wet forest. With Cheirodendron spp., Scaevola procera, Bobea brevipes, Dodonaea viscosa, Ilex anomala, Coprosma kauaensis, Psychotria greenwelliae, Santalum f.v. pyrularium Preserved_Specimen Shrubs 1 meter ht with fruit, no flowers Perlman, S. 23044 Kauai BISH 2012-10-11
17 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dryland forest Preserved_Specimen 5 ft tall; flower cream colored. Christensen, C. 185 Kauai BISH 1977-04-15
18 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dryland forest Preserved_Specimen 5 ft tall; flower cream colored. Christensen, C. 185 Kauai BISH 1977-04-15
19 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details side of road Preserved_Specimen 5-6' tall; flowers cream colored, scent similar to magnolia. Plews, J.H.R. Kauai BISH 1979-02-20
20 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Among shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21465 Kauai BISH 1950-02-01
21 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 0.5 m shrub; small population. Takeuchi, W.N. 91 Kauai BISH 1983-01-12
22 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen flower cream, 6 petals suffused at outer margins on both sides with light orange striations; outer margins incurved ~0.5 mm Stone, B.C. 1612 Kauai BISH 1956-12-29
23 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pedicels slightly glutinous. Degener, O. 22334 Kauai BISH 1950-01-30
24 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen peduncles slightly glutinous; corolla white, pale pink toward apex Degener, O. 22334 Kauai BISH 1950-01-30
25 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen scandent shrub; leaves light green, sticky; stem tips and young leaves powdery white; flower cream, pinkish when old; suckers from damaged roots Herbst, D.R. 2154 Kauai BISH 1971-09-22
26 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Single stem ca 1.5 m tall. Wagner, W.L. 5005 Kauai BISH 1983-08-27
27 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen fruit covered with sticky exudation. Zimmerman, E.C. Kauai BISH 1937-07-22
28 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen fruit covered with sticky exudation. Zimmerman, E.C. Kauai BISH 1937-07-22
29 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 786 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
30 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lyon, H.L. 5019 Kauai BISH 1925-03-01
31 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen shrub Stone, B.C. Kauai BISH 1960-04-14
32 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 786 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
33 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1770 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
34 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen fls light pink Fay, J. 502 Kauai BISH 1975-12-03
35 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Shrub 30 inches high, .75 inch diameter at base, spreading. Flowers with white corolla. Parts sticky to touch. Stern, W.L. 3139 Kauai BISH 1974-04-02
36 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In grassy clearing; easily found along roadside & parking lot. Preserved_Specimen 3-4' shrub. Takeuchi, W.N. 2473 Kauai BISH 1985-09-21
37 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros polymorpha and Acacia koa montane mesic forest. Direct north facing slope, on rock face. With Dodonea viscosa, Metrosideros polymorpha, Acacia koa, Psidium cattleianum, Erigeron bellioides, Selaginella sp., Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Preserved_Specimen Shrub, about 3 feet long. Immature and mature fruit. Walsh, S. 591 Kauai BISH 2018-05-23
38 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3765 Kauai BISH 1961-08-15
39 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1022 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
40 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1770 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
41 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 30208 Kauai BISH 1976-07-04
42 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Chock, A.K. 1124 Kauai BISH 1953-09-03
43 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17311 Kauai BISH 1920-01-01
44 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 68 Kauai BISH 1969-01-16
45 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 1616 Kauai BISH 1956-12-29
46 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Sohmer, S.H. 6532 Kauai BISH 1970-07-18
47 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. 9 Kauai BISH 1912-01-01
48 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1770 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
49 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1770 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
50 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH 1911-12-01
51 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 6 Kauai BISH 1982-01-01
52 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1770 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
53 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rather dry open forest undergrowth. Preserved_Specimen Stoloniferous shrub 2 m high. MacDaniels, L.H. 810 Kauai BISH 1927-02-17
54 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet. Preserved_Specimen Decumbent shrub w/12' long stems & erect branches; foliage somewhat fleshy, medium green; flws sweetly fragrant, white tipped w/cream. Common. Herbst, D.R. 1001 Kauai BISH 1968-03-30
55 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet woods Preserved_Specimen 2 m shrub, branched from base; flower pale pink, fragrant St.John, H. 22947 Kauai BISH 1947-12-22
56 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen 3-6' shrub, erect or lax shoots Stern, W.L. 1317 Kauai BISH 1961-08-01
57 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Metrosideros, Scaevola, Coprosma, Vaccinium, Pteridium, etc. Preserved_Specimen 4 ft high shrub, very viscid; lvs light green, glaucous below. Henrickson, J.S. 4036 Kauai BISH 1969-08-01
58 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Metrosideros, Scaevola, Coprosma, Vaccinium, Pteridium, etc. Preserved_Specimen 4 ft high shrub, very viscid; lvs light green, glaucous below. Henrickson, J.S. 4036 Kauai BISH 1969-07-01
59 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details lehua, Santalum, Scaevola Preserved_Specimen to 3'; unbranched Pearsall, G.A. 435 Kauai BISH 1959-06-30
60 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros - Acacia montane mesic forest with Alphitonia, Pouteria, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Claoxylon, Myrsine lanaiensis, Wikstroemia furcata, Dodonaea, Kauda affinis, Melicope ovata, M. anisata, M. barbigera, Dracaena aurea, Polyscias kavaien Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1 m tall, in Dicranopteris matting ferns, steep bank near ridgetop, occasional Wood, K.R. 15102 Kauai BISH 2012-07-18
61 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa - Metrosideros polymorpha - Dicranopteris linearis montane mesic 10% open, 8-10 m tall canopy, 40% Acacia koa, 20% Metrosideros polymorpha, 20% tall Psychotria mariniana with 5-7 m tall understory canopy of Planchonella sandwicensis, Bobea brevipes merging into up Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1 m tall, stems yellow-brown, old capsules, much variability with this species in area, sympatric with L. kalalauensis, possible hybridization causing local variability Wood, K.R. 15115 Kauai BISH 2012-07-25
62 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Pushing up through scrub uluhe. Preserved_Specimen 3 ft plant; seed capsules sticky. Hobdy, R.W. 69 Kauai BISH 1969-01-16
63 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Thicket at edge of pali. Preserved_Specimen 1 m shrub, lvs thick, firm, chartaceous, shining green above, pale green beneath; flws creamy white w/strong sweet fragrance; capsules ovoid, brown. St.John, H. 19985 Kauai BISH 1939-02-11
64 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Scaevola, Dicranopteris Preserved_Specimen 4' shrub, straggling, sparingly branched shrub Carlquist, S. 1793 Kauai BISH 1965-07-31
65 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dense forest, clay soil. Preserved_Specimen Spreading bush 6-10 ft tall; flws 5-6-8 petals, flesh color, fragrant; frt small, green. Wilder, G.P. 446 Kauai BISH 1926-03-08
66 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen scandent shrub; young foliage and calyx sticky Herbst, D.R. 2055 Kauai BISH 1971-08-10
67 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Roadside. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 1 m tall; flws white; lvs sticky when fresh. Lamoureux, C.H. 2846 Kauai BISH 1965-04-19
68 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry, open forest Preserved_Specimen 2 m shrub, stoloniferous MacDaniels, L.H. 810 Kauai BISH 1927-02-17
69 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details by rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Flowers pale cream. Degener, O. 21561 Kauai BISH 1952-01-07
70 Lysimachia glutinosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Open rainforest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 33496 Kauai BISH 1976-07-04
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