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Artemisia kauaiensis

(Skottsb.) Skottsb. (1937)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Artemisia

‘āhinahina [ahinahina], hinahina

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Clumping or upright (erect), sprawling, prostrate. or decumbent shrub, 0.15–0.4 m tall.

Stems:

Roots: Roots a tap root.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades elliptic or ovate Apex acute or rounded. Margins bipinnately lobed, deeply lobed or dissected, pinnatifid.

Flowers:

Fruit: Fruit a simple; dry; achene (cypsela); brown; pale brown; tan; or straw-colored; obconical (top-shaped attachment at the narrow end); ribbed/nerved; viscid/sticky/gummy.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 51: 199 (1937)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:263 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sunny rocky talus Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 20937 Kauai BISH 1950-02-07
2 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1703213 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
3 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 539 Kauai BISH
4 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1698 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
5 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Knudsen Kauai BISH
6 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Knudsen Kauai BISH
7 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 53 Kauai BISH 1968-12-16
8 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kauai BISH
9 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1978-06-15
10 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sunny, rocky talus Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 20937 Kauai BISH 1950-02-07
11 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On rocky ledge Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5174 Kauai BISH 1983-12-21
12 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in jumbled rocky substrate behind beach. Preserved_Specimen Low shrub, about 2 ft. tall. ESP Field Crew 9 Kauai BISH 1979-07-16
13 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On cliff faces Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 2877 Kauai BISH 1973-01-21
14 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Crevices of basalt cliff, open, dry country Preserved_Specimen Leaves bright green, heads yellow St.John, H. 24894 Kauai BISH 1952-12-28
15 Artemisia kauaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry, open, steep slope Preserved_Specimen 8 ft ramble bush St.John, H. 13849 Kauai BISH 1933-12-28
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