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Notelaea sandwicensis

(A.Gray) Hong-Wa & Besnard (2022)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Oleaceae Genus: Notelaea

olopua, pua, ulupua

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees up to 8(–25) m tall.

Stems: Bark thick, corrugated.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades lanceolate to elliptic–lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, flat or slightly undulate, 7–22 cm long, (1.5–) 2.2–6(–7) cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate or rarely obtuse. Base rounded to cuneate. Upper surfaces glossy, glabrous and glandular–dotted; lower surfaces dull and pale, glabrous to sparsely puberulent especially along veins, and glandular–dotted with peltate glands; coriaceous. Margins not thickened, entire. Petioles 0.6–1.3 cm long, thickened toward base. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers usually 7–11 in axillary, decussate inflorescences usually 24 cm long, elongating to 3–7 cm long in fruit, glabrous to densely puberulent, pedicels 3–4 mm long, elongating to 5–9 mm long in fruit, bracts lanceolate to ovate, slender, ca. 1.5 mm long, caducous. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx short, 4-toothed, teeth ca. 0.6–1.1 mm long, entire to suberose, valvate. Corolla 4-lobed, the lobes imbricate in bud, elliptic, rotate, ca. 2–3 mm long. Stamens 4, Stamens inserted on corolla tube alternate with the lobes; anthers dithecal, oriented back–to–back, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, 2-celled, placentation axile; ovules 2 per cell; stigma 2-lobed, dry.

Fruit: Drupes green when immature; becoming purplish then bluish black at maturity; rather dry; ovoid to ovoid–conical; 1.6–2.2 cm long. Seeds 1 per fruit.

Ploidy: 2n = 44

Habitat: Dry to mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 30–1,300 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

  • Durable, hard wood used for adze handles (Abbott 1992:88); as a rasp for fish hook manufacture and prized fuel because it burns hot even when green (Little and Skolmen 1989:278); house frames (Abbott 1992:67–68). Wood also as melomelo stick for fishing (Kamakau 1976:63) and as part of a tripping weapon (Krauss 1993:111).

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
O'ahu Endemic
Molokai Endemic
Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic
Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society p.16 (2022)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:992 (K, O, Mo, L, M, H [as Nestegis sandwicensis]); Dupin et al. 2022:16 (COMBNOV, Syn. Nestegis sandwicensis = Notelaea sandwicensis)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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