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Plantago princeps var. longibracteata

H.Mann (1868)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Plantaginaceae Genus: Plantago

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Robust perennial herbs.

Stems: Stems densely woolly and unbranched up to 1 dm long.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Tufted near the tips of the stems. Blades narrowly oblong–lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or sometimes elliptic, 6–30 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, blades undifferentiated from petioles. Apex acute to acuminate. Base slightly narrowed at base and sessile, or gradually attenuate to a winged petiole. Surfaces glabrous or lower surfaces sometimes appressed pilose; blades thick, coriaceous. Margins minutely and remotely denticulate or entire. (3–)5–9-veined, the veins usually converging toward base. Petioles up to 5 cm long, winged. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in scapes usually several, 10–50 cm long, spikes (7–)11–28 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pilose, flowers in loose to moderately congested spikes, each flower ascending. bracts lanceolate,1.2–3 mm long, glabrous but sometimes woolly at base, bracteoles absent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx of 4 sepals, subequal, distinct, elliptic to elliptic–ovate, 1.8–3.2 mm long, scarious except on midrib, glabrous or ciliate, apex sometimes minutely erose. Corolla salverform, 4-lobed, scarious, persistent in fruit, the tube covering the upper part of the capsule, lobes spreading, 1.5–2 mm long. Stamens 4, alternate with the corolla tubes; filaments adnate to corolla tube; anthers long–exserted, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, with as many cells; ovules apparently (2?)4, placentation axile; style 1, terminal, slender.

Fruit: Capsules narrowly ovoid–ellipsoid; 3–3.8 mm long; enclosed in the persistent calyx; slightly exserted from calyx; dehiscent at a point ⅔ to base or slightly more. Seeds 3–4; black; ellipsoid to oblong–ellipsoid; 1.5–2.1 mm long; the surface apparently with a mucilaginous membrane; with well–developed; firm; translucent endosperm.

Ploidy: 2n = 12

Habitat: Steep slopes; rock walls; or at bases of waterfalls.

Elevation Range: 790–800 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 189 (1868)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1055 (K, O)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron short statured wet forest with open bog habitat dissected by headwater drainages PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 16261 Kauai PTBG 1/21/2015
2 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. mann & w. t. brigham 612 GH
3 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Wood, K.; Flynn, T. W. 13454 Kauai US 3/22/1993
4 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 12430 Kauai PTBG 12/12/1991
5 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros mixed wet forest with riparian vegetation PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 15542 Kauai PTBG 6/27/2013
6 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Montane bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 12305 Kauai PTBG 3/7/2007
7 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Scattered bogs w/ intermitant drainages. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 5916 Kauai PTBG 1/7/1997
8 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Riparian natural community. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 14421 Kauai PTBG 9/26/1994
9 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13255 Kauai PTBG 1/21/1993
10 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet,open, vegetation among rock fall zone at base of back wall. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Clay Trauernicht 732 Kauai PTBG 2/11/2009
11 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros Lowland Wet Forest patches and Shrubland PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 4271 Kauai PTBG 6/10/2015
12 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Montane Wet Mixed Communities. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 1872 Kauai PTBG 5/2/1992
13 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Scattered bogs in montane wet Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest w/ stream systems dissecting; very wet and higly windswept. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 3892 Kauai PTBG 12/28/1994
14 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Dubautia-Sadleria shrubland/fernland, high wind summit slopes PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 15471 Kauai PTBG 4/3/2013
15 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet cliff PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Wood, K. R.; Kirkpatrick, M. 23576 Kauai US 6/27/2013
16 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W. L.; Lorence, D. H.; Flynn, T. W.; Wood, K. 6354 Kauai US 6/13/1990
17 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On road cut PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, k. r. wood & m. kirkpatrick 23576 Oahu US 6/27/2013
18 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Middleton, S.; Liittschwager, D. 16423 Kauai US 12/10/1998
19 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information mixed lowland wet forest, stems clumping on saturated walls of waterfall area and on large boulders at base of falls; pigs, rats, landslides, Cyathea cooperi, Cyperus meyenianus, Clidemia hirta, Ju PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & t. menard 10929 Kauai US 9/8/2004
20 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet cliff PRESERVED_SPECIMEN S. P. Perlman, K. R. Wood & M. Kirkpatrick 23576 Kauai US 6/27/2013
21 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information mixed lowland wet forest, stems clumping on saturated walls of waterfall area and on large boulders at base of falls; pigs, rats, landslides, Cyathea cooperi, Cyperus meyenianus, Clidemia hirta, Ju PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Menard, T. 10929 Kauai US 9/8/2004
22 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Montane bogs dissected with riparian veg PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R. 12297 Kauai US 3/7/2007
23 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Montane bogs dissected with riparian veg PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood 12297 Kauai US 3/7/2007
24 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, k. wood & t. w. flynn 13454 Kauai US 3/22/1993
25 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on damp rocks. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Cuddihy, L.W. Collector Number: 308 Kauai BISH 4/10/1980
26 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, s. middleton & d. liittschwager 16423 Kauai US 12/10/1998
27 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Machaerina angustifolia wet herbland w/ Boehmeria, Bidens, Diplazium sandwichianum, Psychotria, Perrottetia, Hedyotis elatior, Isachne pallens, Hedyotis tryblium, Dubautia knudsenii, Wikstroemia, Ilex, Freycinetia, Broussaisia. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 13121 Kauai BISH 11/19/1992
28 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Swezey, O.H. 16005 Oahu BISH 6/11/1916
29 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. s.n. Oahu BISH 5/8/1909
30 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 391 Oahu BISH 12/24/1908
31 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Mann, H. 612 Kauai BISH 2/6/1905
32 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information rock fall at base of back wall; Sadleria, Bidens, Hedyotis elatior, Cyrtandra, Pipturus ruber PRESERVED_SPECIMEN trauernicht, c. tangalin, n. collector number: 732 Kauai BISH 2/11/2009
33 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information rock fall at base of back wall; Sadleria, Bidens, Hedyotis elatior, Cyrtandra, Pipturus ruber PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Trauernicht, C. 732 Kauai BISH 2/11/2009
34 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On steep clay bank PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wilson, k.a. collector number: 126 Oahu BISH 4/6/1952
35 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information rock fall at base of back wall; Sadleria, Bidens, Hedyotis elatior, Cyrtandra, Pipturus ruber PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Trauernicht, C. Tangalin, N. Collector Number: 732 Kauai BISH 2/11/2009
36 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Open slope w/ Lobelia gaudichaudii, Scaevola glabra, Bidens, Eugenia, Metrosideros rugosa, Nertera PRESERVED_SPECIMEN stemmermann, r.l. higashino, p.k. collector number: 1206 Oahu BISH 10/31/1976
37 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on damp rocks. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Cuddihy, L.W. 308 Kauai BISH 4/10/1980
38 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Open slope w/ Lobelia gaudichaudii, Scaevola glabra, Bidens, Eugenia, Metrosideros rugosa, Nertera PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Stemmermann, R.L. 1206 Oahu BISH 10/31/1976
39 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Machaerina angustifolia wet herbland w/ Boehmeria, Bidens, Diplazium sandwichianum, Psychotria, Perrottetia, Hedyotis elatior, Isachne pallens, Hedyotis tryblium, Dubautia knudsenii, Wikstroemia, Ilex, Freycinetia, Broussaisia. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. wood, k.r.; lorence, d.h. collector number: 13121 Kauai BISH 11/19/1992
40 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN swezey, o.h. collector number: 16005 Oahu BISH 6/11/1916
41 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. s.n. Oahu BISH 5/3/1909
42 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Deep valley surrounded by steep cliffs ca. 1000 m high laced with waterfalls, low primary vegetation of small stunted trees 1-2 m tall, numerous pteridophytes and Gunnera over saturated rocky ground. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 6354 Kauai BISH 6/13/1990
43 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN w. l. wagner, d. h. lorence, t. w. flynn & k. wood 6354 DUKE 6/13/1990
44 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On steep clay bank PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wilson, K.A. 126 Oahu BISH 4/6/1952
45 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Riparian PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 24355 Kauai PTBG 2/10/2015
46 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Riparian veg Metrosideros- Sadleria PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 24784 Kauai PTBG 1/7/2016
47 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Montane bogs w/ mixed sedges and grasses. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 11696 Kauai PTBG 1/1/2006
48 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 13453 Kauai PTBG 1/28/2009
49 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland wet forest and shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN David H. Lorence 7287 Kauai PTBG 11/19/1992
50 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Deep, narrow valley surrounded by vertical cliffs laced with waterfalls; low undisturbed wet forest of small, stunted trees and shrubs. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 96 Kauai PTBG 8/10/1988
51 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Machaerina lowland Riparian. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13208 Kauai PTBG 1/9/1993
52 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Machaerina angustifolia wet herbland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13121 Kauai PTBG 11/19/1992
53 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros polymorpha wet cliff PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 23576 Kauai PTBG 6/27/2013
54 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros mixed lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 10929 Kauai PTBG 9/8/2004
55 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros lowland Wet Forest surrounded by verticle cliffs of Machaerina angustifolia. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 781 Kauai PTBG 5/7/1991
56 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros mixed lowland wet forest with riparian vegetation PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 10654 Kauai PTBG 4/15/2004
57 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Low, undisturbed wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 1128 Kauai PTBG 8/7/1991
58 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Machaerina angustifolia Lowland Wet Shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 1925 Kauai PTBG 2/11/2009
59 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mossy walls. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 16423 Kauai PTBG 12/1/2010
60 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros- Cheirodendron Lowland Wet Forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2138 Kauai PTBG 11/19/1992
61 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros polymorpha lowland wet shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13454 Kauai PTBG 3/22/1993
62 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Waterfall and plunge-pool, riparian vegetation. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 12966 Kauai PTBG 5/7/2008
63 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Montane bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 12297 Kauai PTBG 3/7/2007
64 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Low undisturbed wet forest of small, stunted trees and shrubs. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN David H. Lorence 6563 Kauai PTBG 6/13/1990
65 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on damp rocks. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN cuddihy, l.w. collector number: 308 Kauai BISH 4/10/1980
66 Plantago princeps var. longibracteata H.Mann Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Low primary vegetation of small, stunted trees 1-2 m tall, numerous pteridophytes, and Gunnera over saturated, rocky ground. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN David H. Lorence 5359 Kauai PTBG 7/23/1987
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