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Schiedea nuttallii

Hook. (1844)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Caryophyllaceae Genus: Schiedea

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect to strongly ascending subshrubs 10–15 (–19) dm tall.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes, terete (cylindrical), 4–angled or –ridged, many-branched, glabrous throughout, except bracts and sepals, internodes purple–tinged.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades narrowly ovate or lanceolate to narrowly or broadly elliptic, 5–13 cm long, 1.4–3.5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem. Surfaces dull green, sometimes purple–tinged, slightly thickened and rubbery, chartaceous when dry, with only the midvein evident. Margins entire, slightly thickened becoming revolute toward the base. Midvein ± slightly excentric. Petioles 0.3–1 cm long, weakly ± grooved. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence terminal, with 50–240 flowers, 20–25 (–32) cm long, diffuse, erect, the tertiary and higher level internodes or pedicels usually ascending or appressed, but pedicels usually spreading at anthesis, sometimes with a few hairs toward the base of the internodes; bracts subulate, the lowermost of central axis elliptic, green and purple–tinged or purple, margins ciliate, the lower ones 2–60 mm long, those of branches and flowers 1.5–2 mm long; pedicels 6–12 mm long at anthesis, elongating to 10–20 mm long in fruit, conspicuously asymmetrically flattened and weakly quadrangular, sometimes with a few hairs toward the base on the angles. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals 3.5–4.5 mm long, lanceolate, green, sometimes purple–tinged or nearly purple throughout, opaque, strongly reflexed and convex in the proximal ¼, producing a small transverse bulge, the distal part concave or shallowly navicular, oriented at 5° to 30° angle to the pedicel, abaxial side glabrous, margins conspicuously scarious, ciliate, apex attenuate, often slightly twisted. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 10; filaments dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl 5.8–7.1 mm long, the alternate whorl 4.8–5.5 mm long; anthers 0.7–1.1 mm long, subequal, pale yellow. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles 3.

Fruit: Capsules 2.5–3.5 mm long; narrowly ovoid. Seeds 0.9–1 mm long; orbicular–reniform; compressed; the surface rugose; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = 56*

Habitat: O'ahu (in Wai'anae from 'Ekahanui Gulch to Mokule'ia and Ko'olau ranges; also formerly from Nu'uanu pali; and Manoa and Niu Valleys; but not collected since 1922); Moloka'i (Kala'e and Kamalo; not collected since 1910); and Maui (probably West Maui; not collected since 1792 [1793]); in diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 350–760 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic
Molokai Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Scattered primarily in diverse mesic forest, 400-730 m, scattered exterior valleys of northern, northeastern, northwestern, and southwestern Kaua'i, and 'Ekahanui Gulch to Mokulc'ia, Wai'anae Mountains, O'ahu
  • Schiedea nuttallii is closely related to S. pubescens, which differs primarily in being a vine and in having the inflorescence usually pubescent with purplish hairs; however, the pubescence character is not constant. Specimens of S. nuttallii from Kaua,i have sparsely to moderately puberulent inflores- cences with whitish hairs. In contrast, ,S. pubescens on Lflna'i and Moloka.i is nearly glabrous

Bibliography

Name Published In: Hooker's Icon. Pl. 7: t. 649 (1844)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:517 (K, O); Wagner, Weller & Sakai 2005:77 (Mo, WM, remove K [re-IDed as S. kauaiensis], KEY, DESCR); PEPP 2025/Hillebrand s.n. BISH 501725 (Mo†, 1871); PEPP 2025/Menzies 3 MO (M†, 1793)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested slope Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 19586 Oahu BISH 1949-05-02
2 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested Preserved_Specimen 4-6' bush, slender branched Degener, O. 12799 Oahu BISH 1940-05-01
3 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under Gouldia Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 442 Oahu BISH 1982-04-18
4 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details edge of woods on divide Preserved_Specimen 5' shrub, freely branching St.John, H. 14082 Oahu BISH 1934-02-04
5 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dark, moist ledge Preserved_Specimen 4' erect; brittle stems from root stocks; leaves beneath shining bluish green Degener, O. 27959 Oahu BISH 1962-05-06
6 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details steep wooded slope Preserved_Specimen scandent subshrub. Secondary nerves of leaves, inconspicuous, sepal green, stamens & pistil white. Fosberg, F.R. 13644 Oahu BISH 1937-03-28
7 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rollandia longiflora, Hedyotis schlechtendahliana, ohia Preserved_Specimen 2-3' shrub, erect; flowers Perlman, S. 5279 Oahu BISH 1987-03-01
8 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details open, steep ridge top Preserved_Specimen low shrub, dull gray greenish foliage; mid rib purple Herbst, D.R. 4055 Oahu BISH 1974-07-15
9 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros, Dodonaea Preserved_Specimen Sakimura, K. Oahu BISH 1947-07-13
10 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details woods Preserved_Specimen 5' erect St.John, H. 11096 Oahu BISH 1931-05-17
11 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested Preserved_Specimen 4-6' bush, slender branched Degener, O. 12799 Oahu BISH 1940-05-01
12 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested slope Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 19586 Oahu BISH 1949-05-02
13 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details open, steep ridge top Preserved_Specimen low shrub, dull gray greenish foliage; mid rib purple Herbst, D.R. 4055 Oahu BISH 1974-07-15
14 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen leaves purple tinted below; flowers white, calyxes reddish Cowan, R.S. 1038 Oahu BISH 1948-06-13
15 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen ~1 m erect shrub Bryan Jr., E.H. 851 Oahu BISH 1934-11-13
16 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under Gouldia Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 442 Oahu BISH 1982-03-04
17 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rock wall Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17004 Oahu BISH 1918-05-02
18 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist wooded slope Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 21536 Oahu BISH 1946-03-17
19 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under Planchonella, Psychotria, Pisonia, Eugenia; dry, rocky Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 402 Oahu BISH 1978-09-10
20 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rollandia longiflora, Hedyotis schlechtendahliana, ohia Preserved_Specimen 2-3' shrub, erect; flowers Perlman, S. 5279 Oahu BISH 1987-03-01
21 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17004 Oahu BISH 1918-05-02
22 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 3-4.5 ft. Forbes, C.N. 1781 Oahu BISH 1912-04-26
23 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen A loose shrub Williams, F.X. Oahu BISH 1931-04-19
24 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Pahole rim near Alsinodendron. Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 768 Oahu BISH 1991-07-23
25 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rémy, J. 547 Oahu BISH 1851-01-01
26 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Selling, O. 3608 Oahu BISH 1938-09-25
27 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 632 Oahu BISH 1991-01-21
28 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. 12770 Oahu BISH
29 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6793 Oahu BISH 1998-02-09
30 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 3083 Oahu BISH 1973-08-11
31 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1781 Oahu BISH 1912-04-26
32 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Weller, S.G. 861 Oahu BISH 1987-01-01
33 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6806 Oahu BISH 1998-02-10
34 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6792 Oahu BISH 1998-02-09
35 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Williams, F.X. Oahu BISH 1932-01-03
36 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Oahu BISH 1867-01-01
37 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH 1870-01-01
38 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1933-05-08
39 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH
40 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Oahu BISH
41 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Oahu BISH 1870-12-01
42 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 370 Oahu BISH 1864-01-01
43 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lau, J. 830 Oahu BISH 1982-01-30
44 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Weller, S.G. 903 Oahu BISH 1993-04-23
45 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Galathea Expedition 23545 Oahu BISH 1845-01-01
46 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Menzies, A. BISH
47 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Funk, E.J. 78 Oahu BISH 1978-09-10
48 Schiedea nuttallii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Galathea Expedition 3545 Oahu BISH 1845-01-01
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