img

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]

img

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.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Images

img

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Native Range

Hawaii

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

img
img
img
img
img
img

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 Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. waioli valley PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 103 k Kauai BISH 7/29/1909
2 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. mts. above kaloko reservoir, kilauea PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 511 k Kauai BISH 10/7/1916
3 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Mts. above Kaloko reservoir, Kilauea PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 511 K Kauai BISH 10/7/1916
4 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. wailua mts., pole line PRESERVED_SPECIMEN lydgate, j.m. collector number: 4 Kauai BISH
5 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. upper hanalei valley, between hanalei & kalihinui ridge PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. (sub rock) collector number: 10342 Kauai BISH 10/17/1914
6 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. unknown PreservedSpecimen Rock, J.F.C. Collector Number: 17247 BISH Specimen
7 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. power line trail PRESERVED_SPECIMEN macdaniels, l.h. collector number: 684 Oahu BISH 2/14/1927
8 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. power line trail PRESERVED_SPECIMEN MacDaniels, L.H. 684 Kauai BISH 2/14/1927
9 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. unknown PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: 17247 Maui BISH
10 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. 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 Tangalin, N. 3271 Kauai BISH 8/10/2012
11 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Wailua Mts., pole line PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Lydgate, J.M. 4 Kauai BISH
12 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Waioli Valley PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 103 K Kauai BISH 7/29/1909
13 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. unknown PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 17247 BISH
14 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3265 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
15 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Upper Hanalei Valley, between Hanalei & Kalihinui Ridge PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 10342 Kauai BISH 10/17/1914
16 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3268 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
17 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3270 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
18 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3264 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
19 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3267 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
20 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3266 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
21 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3269 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
22 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3295 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
23 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Kahili Mtn. Park, Kahili Ridge Trail above water tank, near back ridge before and below non-native grassy flat. Slopes below the P.bisattenuataXoahuensis hybird on trail before lateral ridge. Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3271 Kauai PTBG 8/10/2012
24 Cyanea salicina H.Lév. Wainiha valley, below Hinalele falls, at base of falls and along stream banks. Metrosideros lowland wet riparian forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13220 Kauai PTBG 1/9/1993
Back to Top