Lipochaeta tenuifolia

A.Gray (1861)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Lipochaeta

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Suffruticose perennial herbs.

Stems:

Roots: Roots rooting along lower surface.

Leaves: opposite appearing to be 6 leaves per node, leaflets 3-8.5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, sparsely strigillose, margins deeply dissected, ultimate divisions usually cut clear to midrib

Flowers:

Fruit: Fruit a simple; dry; achene (cypsela);

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 5: 131 (1861)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:343 (O [as L. tenuifolia]); Wagner & Robinson 2001:554 (COMBNOV, Syn. L. tenuifolia = Melanthera tenuifolia); Orchard 2013:404 (COMBNOV, Syn. M. tenuifolia = Wollastonia tenuifolia, not followed, KEY); Edwards et al. 2018 (Syn. M. tenuifolia = L. tenuifolia)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Oahu BISH
2 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Oahu BISH
3 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen (Not on sheet) Oahu BISH
4 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On open high knoll of ridge top. Associated also with Bidens torta. Preserved_Specimen Spring leaves all dead adn dry, autumn flowers & leaves much smaller than spring growth. Obata, J.K. 86649 Oahu BISH 1986-11-09
5 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Under a canopy of Schinus and Psidium, forming a ground cover; population healthy, with ca. 1000 plants in all stages, in full bloom Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 85548 Oahu BISH 1985-05-26
6 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details W facing slope. Pocket of remnant dry forest w. Diospyros sandwicensis, Nestegis, Nototrichium humile, Euphorbia haeleeleana & Reynoldsia sandwicensis. Preserved_Specimen Spreading her forming large masses on dripping cliffs & at margins of forest patch; ray & disk corollas yellow; rooting along prostrate stems at nodes. Wagner, W.L. 5697 Oahu BISH 1987-03-01
7 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Partly sprawling over bushes and grass on dry talus slope. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 4174 Oahu BISH 1931-05-10
8 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. Oahu BISH 1980-07-13
9 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Small colony distributed along a crestline distance of 9 m, each cutting a different individual, the species threatened by proliferationof Schinus terebinthifolius Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 7 Oahu BISH 1983-10-02
10 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In degraded Metrosideros forest mostly alien veg w/ Bidens torta, Carex meyenii, Artemisia, Schinus, Lantana, Ageratina riparia, Stachytarpheta, Psidium guajava, Grevillea robusta. Preserved_Specimen 2 patches of plants, 6 ft x 10 ft w/ yellow flowers. Perlman, S. 13318 Oahu BISH 1993-02-06
11 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Pocket of remnant dryland forest of Diospyros sandwicensis, Osmanthus, with few alien spp. such as Passiflora, Leucaena, and Eupatorium riparium. Preserved_Specimen Sprawling herb forming clumps, near rock outcrop Wagner, W.L. 5606 Oahu BISH 1985-07-21
12 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Partly sprawling over bushes and grass on dry talus slope. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 4174 Oahu BISH 1931-05-10
13 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Partly sprawling over bushes and grass on dry talus slope. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 4174 Oahu BISH 1931-05-10
14 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Small colony in open, dry forest; fully exposed to light shade Preserved_Specimen Flowers yellow Herbst, D.R. 4097 Oahu BISH 1974-09-01
15 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 7 Oahu BISH 1983-10-02
16 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Waianae Range, Ohikilolo Ridge Growing along open, dry, ridge top, among molassas grass Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 7 Oahu BISH 1977-05-22
17 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Sida, Gouania, Dodonaea viscosa, Lantana camara. Preserved_Specimen Scandent prostrate shrub. Gagné, W.C. 640 Oahu BISH 1972-07-01
18 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dry forest. Preserved_Specimen Scandent herb. Davis, J. 7057007 Oahu BISH 1986-01-01
19 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In full sun. Preserved_Specimen A subshrub with stems rambling and taking root, forming a low mound 0.3 m tall and 1.5 m across. Rays lemon yellow canary yellow. Disc canary yellow. Lau, J. 2130 Oahu BISH 1986-03-13
20 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing along open, dry ridge top among molasses grass (Melinis) Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 77319 Oahu BISH 1977-05-22
21 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cliff face. On ridge top(most off cliff face), east face of ridge, exposed. On almost vertical cliff face. Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 80 Oahu BISH 1980-03-16
22 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 534 Oahu BISH 1864-01-01
23 Lipochaeta tenuifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rémy, J. 276 Oahu BISH 1855-01-01