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Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei

(H.Lév.) J.W.Dawson & Stemmerm. (1989)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus: Metrosideros

‘ōhi‘a, ‘ōhi‘a lehua, lehua

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs to small trees.

Stems: Bark fissured, flaky, vegetative buds narrow, pointed, with spatulate scales ca. 17 mm long and 9 mm wide.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades ovate to lanceolate or occasionally broadly ovate, 4–6 cm long, 2–3(–4) cm wide. Apex acute, sometimes a little drawn out and twisted. Base cuneate to rounded. Surfaces glabrous. Margins entire. Midrib often red. Petioles 10–20(–30) mm long, Petioles 1–1.5(–2) mm wide, often at right angles or more to the stems, petioles often red. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences of 4–6 pairs of cymules, glabrous or appressed short–pubescent, peduncles ca. 13 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, pedicels ca. 4 mm long and 1 mm wide, bracts ovate or lanceolate, 3 mm long, 1 mm wide, caducous. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Hypanthium well–developed above ovary, 3–4 mm high, 3.5–5 mm wide; fruiting hypanthium 4–6 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, with prominent veins, glabrous or glabrate. Sepals distinct, triangular, 1.5–2 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, imbricate. Petals distinct, obovate, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, imbricate. Stamens numerous, 1.5–2 cm long, distinct; filaments distinct; anthers dithecal. Ovary nearly superior; ovules numerous, anatropous, placentas axile, peltate; style 2–3 cm long, simple, terminal; stigma small.

Fruit: Capsules enclosed by hypanthium; exserted.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat: Ridges at higher elevations.

Elevation Range: 600–1,300 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic
Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 29: 109 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:970 (Mo, L); Oppenheimer et al. 1999:9 (WM); Munro 330 BISH (L†, 1928)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Understory tree to 8 m of exotic tree plantation Stemmermann, L. 7049 Molokai BISH 1985-12-28
2 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Tree 5 m tall Lamoureux, C.H. 1981 Molokai BISH 1962-06-12
3 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12525 Molokai BISH 1915-12-28
4 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen red flower Munro, G.C. 330 Lanai BISH 1928-06-20
5 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pioneer tree at lower tree line; tree 8 m x 1 cm; flower(?) bright red St.John, H. 19846 Molokai BISH 1938-12-28
6 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 384 Lanai BISH 1928-10-23
7 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 87048 Molokai BISH 1954-03-10
8 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Funk, E. Molokai BISH 1988-08-26
9 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Stunted, wind-scultpured shrub Lamoureux, C.H. 1983 Molokai BISH 1962-06-12
10 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 13206 Molokai BISH 1933-07-03
11 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2557 Molokai BISH 1938-07-10
12 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12524 Molokai BISH 1915-12-28
13 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details open woody Preserved_Specimen 7 m. tree St.John, H. 12312 Molokai BISH 1932-12-20
14 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kondo, Y. Molokai BISH 1962-06-18
15 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 6181 Molokai BISH 1910-03-28
16 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. Lanai BISH 1914-02-28
17 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 329 Lanai BISH 1928-06-20
18 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12524 Molokai BISH 1915-12-28
19 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 593 Molokai BISH 1912-09-01
20 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 27 Molokai BISH 1910-06-01
21 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details middle parts of steep ridge with primary mesophytic forest dominated by Metrosideros, with Diospyros and Styphelia Preserved_Specimen Tree 4 m. tall with narrow, gnarled crown. Stamens red. Commonest form, dominant in nearly pure stands on ridge Lorence, D.H. 5472 Molokai BISH 1987-08-02
22 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros fauriei, Leptecophylla, Dubautia linearis, Scaevola chamissoniana, Sadleria cyatheoides, Nestegis sandwicensis, Coprosma foliosa, Melinis minutiflora Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 20433 Molokai BISH 2007-06-08
23 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist forest Preserved_Specimen fl. red St.John, H. 23314 Molokai BISH 1948-02-06
24 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Lowland Wet Forest with Forest with dissecting drainages; Associated with riparian vegetation and Hesperomannia arborescens, Cyrtandra filipes, Deschampsia, Machaerina angustifolia, Peperomia spp. Preserved_Specimen 4-6 m tall, many branches; smooth red-brown bark; occasional with M. Polymorpha var glaberrima. Wood, K.R. 6107 Maui BISH 1997-03-26
25 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros Forest Preserved_Specimen Small tree, dominant; flowers red Little Jr., E.L. 31207 Molokai BISH 1976-09-15
26 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Gulch in montane Metrosideros/native shrubland Preserved_Specimen Tree with red flowers. Pratt, L.W. 1258 Molokai BISH 1982-05-31
27 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest Preserved_Specimen Common forest tree; 8m x 3dm St.John, H. 23442 Molokai BISH 1948-12-22
28 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing along road. Preserved_Specimen Tree, 4m tall, Leaves opposite; young (green) and old fruits collected. Silica sample deposited in the BBG Lab tissue collection. Pell, S.K. 755 Molokai BISH 2008-07-21
29 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details M:nt,xt(xg,xs) Preserved_Specimen small tree,ocassional in mixed alien and native mesic zone Wysong, M.L. 721 Molokai BISH 2005-03-28
30 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Gulch in montane Metrosideros/native shrubland Preserved_Specimen Tree with red flowers. Pratt, L.W. 1259 Molokai BISH 1982-05-31
31 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Assoc. vegetation: Metrosideros polymorpha, Dicranopteris linearis, Clermontia kakeana, Dodonaea viscosa, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Ilex anomala, Scaevola chamissoniana. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 255 Maui BISH 1997-10-24
32 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Gulch in montane Metrosideros/native shrubland Preserved_Specimen Tree with red flowers Pratt, L.W. 1259 Molokai BISH 1982-05-31
33 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic Ohia forest with other native trees and shru Preserved_Specimen Caespitose tree. 6 m tall, 10-15 cm branches. Warshauer, F.R. 2402 Molokai BISH 1979-07-12
34 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Gulch in montane Metrosideros/native shrubland Preserved_Specimen Tree with red flowers. Pratt, L.W. 1258 Molokai BISH 1982-05-31
35 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic exotic tree community with some native tree and native and exotic grass-shrub u/s. Preserved_Specimen 30 cm Bd; 7 m taall; 0.7 m Bole. Terrestrial; semi-shade Jacobi, J.D. 1425 Molokai BISH 1979-06-25
36 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On steep slopes in Dry Shrubland. Vegetation: Metrosideros polymorpha vars. glaberrima & incana, Leptecophylla, Dodonaea, Osteomeles, Schiedea, Bidens, Lipochaeta, Luzula, Polypodium, Eragrostis, Psilotum, Carex, Sphenomeris. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 30608 Maui BISH 2006-03-11
37 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros forest Preserved_Specimen Small tree 20 ft; 4 in diam Elbert Jr., L.L. 31213 Molokai BISH 1976-09-15
38 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Understorey of exotic tree plantation. Preserved_Specimen Stemmermann, R.L. 7048 Molokai BISH 1985-12-28
39 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lowland Ohia Mixed Mesic Forest at 3450 feet on a steep north facing slope associated with Metrosideros, Dodonaea, Styphelia, Psychotria, Cheirodendron, Cyrtandra spp., Pipturus, Alyxia, Pelea, Hedyotis spp., Dubautia, Myoporum, Freycinetia, Perrotettia and native ferns and sedges Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 1401 Maui BISH 1991-11-28
40 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic exotic tree community with some native trees and native and exotic grass shrubs Preserved_Specimen 15 cm bd; 6 m tall; 0.5 m bole; terrestrial, semi-shade; anthers orange-red Jacobi, J.D. 1424 Molokai BISH 1979-06-25
41 Metrosideros waialealae var. fauriei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep valley wall, wet forest; [??] forest Preserved_Specimen Tree 8 m tall, 3 dm diam St.John, H. 23442 Molokai BISH 1948-12-22
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