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Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Campanulaceae Genus: Lobelia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Plant 1.5–2.4 m tall.

Stems: Stem 0.4–1.5 m tall x 1.5–4 cm diam.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 10–24 cm long x 1.3–3.8 cm wide. Apex acute or acuminate. Base attenuate, cuneate, or obtuse. Margins subrevolute or merely thickened. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence 1–1.5 m tall, unbranched (rarely with 1 or two clearly subordinate basal branches), 18–100–flowered; floral bracts 20–47 mm long x 6–16 mm wide, obovate, elliptic, or lanceolate; pedicels 15–45 mm long; hypanthium 8–15 mm long x 6–17 rmn diam. broadly obconic or campanulate, 1/5–1/10 as long as the corolla, glabrous or rarely pubescent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 5-lobed, lobes 7.5–25 mm long x 3.5–9 mm wide, narrowly triangular or lanceolate, ¼ as long to 3 ½ times longer than the hypanthium, the margin entire and sometimes ciliate, the apex acuminate or acute and sometimes apiculate, sepals connate, tube adnate to ovary. Corolla zygomorphic, dorsally cleft almost to base, 67-96 mm long, white or rarely red, glabrous (rarely sparsely pubescent at apex of lobes); tube 26-45 mm long x 7-13 mm diam. at middle, suberect, 2.2-5 times longer than broad; dorsal lobes 35-70 mm long x 4-6 mm wide, 0.9-3.1 times as long as the tube; ventral lip 30-48 mm long x 12-28 mm wide. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes; anthers with apical tufts of white hairs on all 5, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, coherent but separating after anthesis or connate and forming a tube into which pollen is shed; filaments distinct or connate above, attached to the epigynous nectary disk or to base of corolla, rarely adnate to corolla tube; filament tube 58–80 mm long, 4 ½–6 ¼ times longer than anther tube; anther tube 4–6.5 mm diam.; dorsal anthers 11–16 mm long; ventral anthers 8–13 mm long. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, often crowned with an annular nectary disk; ovule placentation axile, or when 1-celled with 2 parietal placentas; stigmas wet or dry, 2-lobed, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Loculicidal capsules; 27–37 mm long x 10–15 mm diam; dehiscent at apex by 2 valves. Seeds numerous; with a straight; short to spatulate dicotyledonous embryo embedded in oily endosperm; 2–2.3 mm long x 1 mm wide; honey-brown.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known primarily from montane wet mixed communities ; sterile plants from montane wet shrublands are placed here as well.

Elevation Range: 915–1760 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:476 (Mo? [sterile spms. from Pāpa‘alā Pali], WM [as L. gloria-montis]); Lammers 2007:805 (confirmation of ID of Mo records, L. gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis, following recognition of L. gloria-montis subsp. longibracteata, KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 68 Maui BISH 1910-05-01
2 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
3 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Open by Mt. Ihikui Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 418 Maui BISH 1916-09-25
4 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
5 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
6 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
7 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2667 Maui BISH 1938-07-28
8 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui, on road to Nakalalua Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2668 Maui BISH 1938-07-28
9 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
10 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Bryan Jr., E.H. Maui BISH 1928-12-01
11 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Mt. Ihukui Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 419 Maui BISH 1916-09-25
12 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui, ridge from summit to E bog and Helu Peak Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 664 Maui BISH 1979-08-17
13 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis Honokahau Drainage Basin Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 456 Maui BISH 1917-09-25
14 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Mt. Eeka Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Maui BISH 1918-09-01
15 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 615 Maui BISH 1916-09-25
16 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui bog with Argroxiphium grayanum, Metrosideros polymorpha Preserved_Specimen 3-8' unbranched rosette; flowers white, staminal column red-violet Carlquist, S. 2142 Maui BISH 1966-08-10
17 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, below summit of Mt. Eke, NW side mossy bog with Plantago, Selaginella, Astelia Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 7937 Maui BISH 1927-08-29
18 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui In swamp Preserved_Specimen Flowers crimson Hartt, C.E. Maui BISH 1933-08-16
19 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui trail Preserved_Specimen Gillett, G.W. 2444 Maui BISH 1972-08-07
20 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Haelaau-Puu Kukui Trail Brushy opening in rain forest Preserved_Specimen Height 2 m. Petals greenish-cream, staminal column purple Ewart III, G.R. 89 Maui BISH 1928-12-19
21 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui bog Preserved_Specimen Higashino, P.K. 7629 Maui BISH 1976-01-04
22 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui In swamp Preserved_Specimen Fls. crimson. Hartt, C.E. Maui BISH 1933-08-16
23 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui summit bog Preserved_Specimen Skottsberg, C.J.F. 773 Maui BISH 1922-10-09
24 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis Along Papaala Pali Growing on the fog and windswept pali. Preserved_Specimen Also observed epiphytic. Degener, O. 7778 Molokai BISH 1928-06-06
25 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui In swamp Preserved_Specimen Fls. crimson. Hartt, C.E. Maui BISH 1933-08-16
26 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Wailuku District, West Maui Natural Area Reserve, Kahakuloa section, N of 'Eke, western headwaters of Kahakuloa Stream Growing in a Metrosideros montane bog. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 119910 Maui BISH 1999-11-11
27 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Violet Lake to near summit bog Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 665 Maui BISH 1979-08-17
28 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Haelaau-Puu Kukui Trail Brushy opening in rain forest Preserved_Specimen Height 2 m. Petals greenish-cream, staminal column purple Ewart III, G.R. 89 Maui BISH 1928-12-19
29 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui In swamp Preserved_Specimen Fls. crimson. Hartt, C.E. Maui BISH 1933-08-16
30 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, just below summit of Mt. Eke, NW side mossy bog with Plantago, Selaginella, Astelia Preserved_Specimen juvenile Degener, O. 7938 Maui BISH 1927-08-30
31 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui edge of open bog Preserved_Specimen 2 m erect, unbranching; flowers greenish ivory petals, purple staminal columns Bryan Jr., E.H. 632 Maui BISH 1928-12-18
32 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis Kaluaaha, ridge E of Manawai Gulch wet ohia forest with native trees and shrubs, treefern Preserved_Specimen sterile Warshauer, F.R. 2390 Molokai BISH 1979-07-10
33 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Eke Trail Base of Eke Crater. Preserved_Specimen Medeiros, A.C. 341 Maui BISH 1982-11-09
34 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui, in Swamp Swamp Preserved_Specimen Neal, M.C. Maui BISH 1933-08-16
35 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen tufted leaves at ends of virgate stems; early bud; inflorescence determinate in bud; stem hollow Gillett, G.W. 1793 Maui BISH 1965-06-21
36 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui In swamp Preserved_Specimen Fls. crimson. Hartt, C.E. Maui BISH 1933-08-16
37 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
38 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui top Preserved_Specimen 4-5 ft. Mann, H. 462 Maui BISH 1864-01-01
39 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
40 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen 2-8 ft. St.John, H. 10274 Maui BISH 1930-02-07
41 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui Puu Kukui open bogs Preserved_Specimen Plant 2-8 ft tall. St.John, H. 10274 Maui BISH 1930-02-07
42 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis Papaala Pali with Trematalobelia, Scaevola, Plantago, Cheirodendron, Metrosideros, and Ilex Preserved_Specimen Succulent 3.5 ft. tall Anderson, S.J. 513 Molokai BISH 1982-05-20
43 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis W Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 68 Maui BISH 1910-05-01
44 Lobelia gloria-montis subsp. gloria-montis West Maui, Puu Kukui Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8209 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
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