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Cyanea salicina

H.Lév. (1913)

This name is accepted

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

hāhā [haha]

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrub.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: simple alternate blade elongate and narrowly lanceolate, 23-27 cm x 3.5-45 cm acuminate sparsely hairy beneath the nerves and irregularly along the surface arcuate nerves, confluent at the margin

Flowers: Flowers axillary sepals connate, tube adnate to ovary 5-lobed stamens connate; anthers with apical tufts of white hairs; stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, coherent but separating after anthesis or connate and forming a tube into which pollen is shed; filaments ovary inferior, 2-celled; stigma 2-lobed

Fruit: Fruit a berry Seeds numerous; small; smooth and shiny; with a straight; short to spatulate dicotyledonous embryo embedded in oily endosperm.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Native Range

Hawaii

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 505 (1913)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:461 (Syn. C. salicina = C. recta); Wagner & Herbst 1999:1868 (RESURRECT/K, based on Lammers unpubl.)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyanea salicina Wailua Mts., pole line Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. 4 Kauai BISH
2 Cyanea salicina Lihue District. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-natived grassy flatSloopes below the P. bisattenuata Xoahuensis hybrid on trail before lateral ridge Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. W/Understory of Clidemia, Blechnum appendiculatum, Rubus rosifolius, Nephrolepis, Strebulus, Boehmeria, Psychotria, Bobea, Pittosporum, Cyanea fissa, Bidens, Xylosma hawaiiense, Polyscias bisattenuat Preserved_Specimen 5 ft. tall, 1 small side-sprout 1 ft. from base. Fruit loosely clumped, hanging below leaves, shinny, round, purple-red w/hairs. Immature fruit peduncles upright w/tapered base to fruit. Fruit w/orange pulp and red=brn seed. Leaf dark green above, yellow-green below w/hairs on midrib and margin. Sap bright yellow Tangalin, N. 3271 Kauai BISH 2012-08-10
3 Cyanea salicina Upper Hanalei Valley, between Hanalei & Kalihinui Ridge Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 10342 Kauai BISH 1914-10-17
4 Cyanea salicina power line trail Preserved_Specimen 1.5 m shrub MacDaniels, L.H. 684 Kauai BISH 1927-02-14
5 Cyanea salicina Mts. above Kaloko reservoir, Kilauea Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 511 Kauai BISH 1916-10-07
6 Cyanea salicina Waioli Valley Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 103 Kauai BISH 1909-07-29
7 Cyanea salicina unknown Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17247 BISH
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