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Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Araliaceae Genus: Cheirodendron

‘ōlapa, lapalapa

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 2–10 m tall; secretory canals present in most parts.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (palmate). Opposite. Leaflets 3 occasionally 1, caducous, broadly ovate to depressed-ovate or subreniform, 3.5-7(-9) cm long, up to nearly twice as wide. Apex acuminate–mucronate. Base truncate to broadly obtuse, rarely subcordate. Blades coriaceous, chartaceous when dry. midvein, margins, petiolule, and petiole usually tinged purple, petiolule often laterally compressed. Margins entire or remotely serrulate. Veins raised on upper surface in dried material. Petioles base often broad and sheathing the stem. Petioles (5–)7–12 cm long, petiolules 2.5–5 cm long, laterally compressed. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal, erect, oppositely branched panicles of umbellules. Inflorescences up to 15 cm long. Bracts minute, subconnate, persistent, forming an involucel below the umbellules and pseudocalyx below each flower; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect) and functionally staminate (the plants andromonoecious). Calyx of 5 short, basally connate teeth. Corolla of 5(6) petals, buds dark purple, mature petals purple externally, greenish within, valvate, caducous, triangular to ovate or oblong, apex inflexed. Stamens usually as many as and alternate with the petals, sometimes numerous, distinct, inserted at the edge of the epigynous nectary disk; 5, pale yellow, spreading. Ovary inferior, (4)5-carpellate, carpels connate (rarely pseudomonomerous), with as many cells; ovules pendulous, 2 per cell, 1 abortive; styles (4)5, 1–1.5 mm long, connate into a blunt, cylindrical stylopodium surmounted by the circular stigmas.

Fruit: Drupes green; ripening dark purple; exocarp fleshy; globose; or laterally compressed and orbicular or oblate to ovoid or obovoid; 3–7.5 mm long; pyrenes cartilaginous; laterally compressed; as many as styles. [Gaudichaud–Beaupé; 1830; Gray; 1854a; Heller; 1897; Herat; 1981; Hochreutiner; 1925; Krajina; 1931; Leveille; 1911a; St. John; 1959; Seemann; 1864–1868; Sherff; 1951c; 1952a; 1954a; 1962]; globose; weakly; if at all; (4)5–sided (ribbed when dry); 3.5–7.5 mm long (incl. styles). Seeds 1 per pyrene; embryo small.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from mesic to wet forest.

Elevation Range: 700–1,300 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Tim/curated by Pu
  • The name lapalapa is presumably an onomatopoeia for the sound made by the leaves as the flutter in the wind (Hochreutiner, 1925).

Bibliography

Other References

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Wagner et al. 1990:227 (O)

Lowry, P.P. (1986). A Synopsis of Native Hawaiian Araliaceae. Pacific Science 40 1-4, 79-87

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2.5 m tree Long, C.R. 3665 Oahu BISH 1965-12-28
2 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2.4 m tree Long, C.R. 4190 Oahu BISH 1966-09-17
3 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 3 m tree Long, C.R. 4198 Oahu BISH 1966-09-18
4 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 3 m tree, spreading Kuykendall, J.R. 114 Oahu BISH 1943-05-09
5 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Tree about 25 feet tall. Yoshioka, T. Oahu BISH 1933-11-15
6 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 15' tree Nishida, T. Oahu BISH 1943-12-12
7 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen tree; wood with yellow tinge Morley, H. Oahu BISH 1933-12-10
8 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 35' tree Hosaka, E.Y. Oahu BISH 1930-02-02
9 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen shrub Harris, J.A. 242174 Oahu BISH 1924-08-31
10 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 12927 Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
11 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 8 m x 10 cm tree, ~2 m trunk, bark dark brown, groved; wood white; petiole purplish brown; leaves light green with brown midrib and margin; branches in infrutescence blackish purple; fruit dark purple van Royen, P. 10225 Oahu BISH 1968-02-23
12 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in wet/cloud forest along the Koolau summit with Metrosideros rugosa, Cheirodendron trigynum, Metrosideros polymorpha, Ilex anomala, Psychotria mariniana, Prtichardia martii, Dicranopteris linearis, and others. Preserved_Specimen Small tree with atypically shaped leaflets. Everything else pretty much normal kine stuff. Thomas, M.K. 911 Oahu BISH 2024-11-21
13 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Shinohara, B. Oahu BISH 1947-05-01
14 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lyon, H.L. Oahu BISH 1908-09-15
15 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. 130 Oahu BISH 1930-02-02
16 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Christophersen, E. Oahu BISH 1925-12-11
17 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist Preserved_Specimen 5 m tree MacDaniels, L.H. 94 Oahu BISH 1926-11-01
18 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in forest of C. platyphyllum. Preserved_Specimen Tree about 6 ft tall. Nishimoto, M. Oahu BISH 1945-05-27
19 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details damp ridge Preserved_Specimen Davis, H. Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
20 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Skottsberg, C.J.F. 18441106810 Oahu BISH 1926-09-17
21 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Harris, J.A. 242224 Oahu BISH 1924-09-07
22 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 1759 Oahu BISH 1984-09-30
23 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Christophersen, E. 1803 Oahu BISH 1931-05-10
24 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Woolford, H.A. 17 Oahu BISH 1955-10-30
25 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lamoureux, C.H. 2421 Oahu BISH 1963-10-20
26 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Oahu BISH 1908-08-23
27 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. Oahu BISH 1930-02-02
28 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bryan Jr., E.H. Oahu BISH 1920-01-01
29 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Morley, H. Oahu BISH 1933-12-01
30 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1933-07-19
31 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lay, G.T. Oahu BISH 1826-01-01
32 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1933-07-19
33 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Oahu BISH 1869-08-01
34 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. Oahu BISH 1909-05-08
35 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bryan Jr., E.H. Oahu BISH 1920-01-01
36 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Suehiro, A. Oahu BISH 1932-10-16
37 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. Oahu BISH 1930-02-02
38 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1933-07-19
39 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1930-03-01
40 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lyon, H.L. Oahu BISH 1926-09-17
41 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rain forest Preserved_Specimen Baker, R.J. Oahu BISH 1938-01-08
42 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Oahu BISH 1908-08-16
43 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Oahu BISH 1946-01-01
44 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Oahu BISH 1945-12-22
45 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Garber, D.W. 80 Oahu BISH 1919-11-23
46 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Suehiro, A. 240 Oahu BISH 1932-10-13
47 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kerr, M. 1491 Oahu BISH 1946-06-03
48 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Selling, O. 3596 Oahu BISH 1938-09-25
49 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Krauss, N.H. Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
50 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Oahu BISH
51 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 540 Oahu BISH 1985-04-14
52 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. BISH
53 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros forest Preserved_Specimen Grant, M.L. 7478 Oahu BISH 1934-10-04
54 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details open forest Preserved_Specimen 3.2 m tree Long, C.R. 3666 Oahu BISH 1965-12-28
55 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details swampy woods Preserved_Specimen 20' tree St.John, H. 13395 Oahu BISH 1933-11-05
56 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros forest Preserved_Specimen 30' tree Grant, M.L. 7209 Oahu BISH 1934-08-07
57 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Open rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 28122 Oahu BISH 1962-11-20
58 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros forest Preserved_Specimen 20' x 4 tree Little Jr., E.L. 31308 Oahu BISH 1978-10-18
59 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen Lum, M. Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
60 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details windswept, forest Preserved_Specimen 3 m tree Chock, A.K. 186 Oahu BISH 1950-04-30
61 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In forest beneath summit. Preserved_Specimen 3 m tree, several trunks ~7 dbh. Long, C.R. 3661 Oahu BISH 1965-12-28
62 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rain forest, uluhe Preserved_Specimen tree Takeuchi, W.N. 3660 Oahu BISH 1987-08-22
63 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details thicket Preserved_Specimen 6 m tree; leaves pale green beneath, quaking St.John, H. 20958 Oahu BISH 1945-05-13
64 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet, windswept ridge Preserved_Specimen 3 m shrub Mäkinen, L. 66860 Oahu BISH 1966-06-04
65 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Coprosma, Pelea, Broussaisia Preserved_Specimen 15' tree; palmately compound leaves of 3 leaflets; leaflets broader than long, shortly acuminate and glabrous; fruit of 5 nutlets Ishikawa, S. 13 Oahu BISH 1971-12-07
66 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On denuded ridge. Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. 706 Oahu BISH 1932-09-18
67 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist woods Preserved_Specimen Hashimoto, E.Y. Oahu BISH 1932-01-10
68 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details one tree amid pamakani Preserved_Specimen Williamson, R. Oahu BISH 1961-07-08
69 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details windswept Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9993 Oahu BISH 1935-08-18
70 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist, open Preserved_Specimen Cowan, R.S. 98 Oahu BISH 1946-09-29
71 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Metrosideros rugosa, Cladium, Broussaisia arguta, Scaevola mollis Preserved_Specimen 12' tree; leaves yellow green, quaking; stems, petioles and fruit purple Carlquist, S. 2365 Oahu BISH 1966-10-02
72 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details bog Preserved_Specimen 15' tree Hume, E.P. 553 Oahu BISH 1932-04-24
73 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rain forest Preserved_Specimen 7 m tree MacDaniels, L.H. 23 Oahu BISH 1926-10-06
74 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen Morley, H. 106 Oahu BISH 1933-11-05
75 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen Christophersen, E. 1708 Oahu BISH 1931-04-03
76 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet slope Preserved_Specimen Bergman, H.F. Oahu BISH 1928-02-11
77 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet native dominated area Preserved_Specimen 2 large trees. Twig broken by another hiker. This trail was full of people Faccenda, K. 2088 Oahu BISH 2021-08-21
78 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On a wind swept summit. Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 1328 Oahu BISH 1991-09-09
79 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details denuded Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. 616 Oahu BISH 1932-07-04
80 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cloud/wet forest dominated by Metrosideros, Kadua, Melicope, Machaerina, Cibotium, Sadleria, Dicranopteris, Diplopterygium, and many other natives. Also growing abundant Hedychium gardnerianum, Miconia crenata, Pterolepis glomerata, Setaria palmifolia, Elephantopus, and other weeds. Preserved_Specimen Small-medium tree about 2 m tall. Carpels 5. Leaves Glabrous, dark green above and pale below, margins entire to crenate (rarely serrate). Thomas, M.K. 220 Oahu BISH 2022-01-14
81 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen Furmidge, G. Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
82 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet, wooded Preserved_Specimen Kitamura, F. Oahu BISH 1933-11-05
83 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Metrosideros, Coprosma, Ilex, Broussaisia, Vaccinium, Myrsine sandwicensis, Dubautia laxa Preserved_Specimen 15' tree Carlquist, S. 1679 Oahu BISH 1965-12-12
84 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis lowland wet forest with Scaevola, Psychotria, Alyxia, Melicope, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Machaerina, Bidens, Coprosma, Clidemia. Preserved_Specimen Scattered trees with flowers. Perlman, S. 6579 Oahu BISH 1987-10-12
85 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details bog; with Athyrium, Cibotium, Dryopteris, Cheirodendron, Metrosideros, Myrsine, Pelea Preserved_Specimen Higashino, P.K. 5317 Oahu BISH 1976-02-08
86 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details windswept Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 25288 Oahu BISH 1954-03-21
87 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with ferns, Bryophytes Preserved_Specimen Gillett, G.W. 1494 Oahu BISH 1964-02-22
88 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details thicket Preserved_Specimen 7 m tree St.John, H. 20433 Oahu BISH 1943-12-12
89 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 3 m tree Long, C.R. 4189 Oahu BISH 1966-09-17
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