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Wikstroemia skottsbergiana

Sparre (1964)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malvales Family: Thymelaeaceae Genus: Wikstroemia

‘ākia [akia], kauhi

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or small trees.

Stems: Internodes 2–10 cm long, pubescent, becoming glabrate.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades ovate to ovate–elliptic, (6–)8–9(–12) cm long, (2.5–)3.8–5.4(–6) cm wide. Apex distinctly acuminate or caudate, 1–2.5 cm long. Base subcordate. Surfaces glabrous or lower surfaces with scattered hairs along the midrib, petioles hirsute or with scattered hairs; pale green, membranous. Margins entire. Pinnately veined. Petioles 3–8 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in peduncles usually 10–15(–25) mm long, filiform, pilose, often curved, rachis globose to conical, slender, 2–6 mm long, hirsute, pedicels minute, pilose. Flowers bisexual (perfect), green, glabrous or with scattered hairs. Calyx tube 6–10 mm long, outer lobes 2.5–5 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, inner lobes 1.7–3 mm Iong, 1.5–2.8 mm wide. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 8, the lower whorl included, the upper whorl sometimes shortly exserted. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovules solitary and pendulous.

Fruit: Fruit red; ellipsoid; ca. 15 mm long; ca. 8 mm in diameter; fruit drupaceous. Seeds without endosperm.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Rare in wet and perhaps diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range: ca. 630 m

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Dylan Charter
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 58: 497 (1964)

Other References

Wood, K. (2015) Wikstroemia skottsbergiana (Thymelaeaceae): with notes on its habitat in upper Lumaha`i, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i

Wagner et al. 1990:1290 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros lowland wet forest with Antidesma platyphyllum var. hillebrandi, Syzgium sanwicensis, Cheirodendron spp, Ilex anomala, Tetraplasandra, Dubautia knudsenii, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Psychotria wawrae, Hedyotis terminalis, Melicope spp. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wood, k.r. query, m. collector number: 8110 Kauai BISH 1/5/2000
2 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN f. fagerlind & c. skottsberg UPS 3/8/1948
3 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros lowland wet forest with Antidesma platyphyllum var. hillebrandi, Syzgium sanwicensis, Cheirodendron spp, Ilex anomala, Tetraplasandra, Dubautia knudsenii, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Psychotria wawrae, Hedyotis terminalis, Melicope spp. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. Query, M. Collector Number: 8110 Kauai BISH 1/5/2000
4 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fagerlind, f. skottsberg, c. collector number: 6517 Kauai BISH 3/8/1948
5 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fagerlind, f.; skottsberg, c. 6517 GB 3/8/1948
6 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros lowland wet forest with Antidesma platyphyllum var. hillebrandi, Syzgium sanwicensis, Cheirodendron spp, Ilex anomala, Tetraplasandra, Dubautia knudsenii, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Psychotria wawrae, Hedyotis terminalis, Melicope spp. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. 8110 Kauai BISH 1/5/2000
7 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fagerlind, F. 6517 Kauai BISH 3/8/1948
8 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 8110 Kauai PTBG 1/5/2000
9 Wikstroemia skottsbergiana Sparre Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN folke fagerlind|carl skottsberg fagerlind 6517 MO 3/8/1948
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