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Cryptocarya oahuensis

(O.Deg.) Fosberg (1936)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Magnoliids Order: Laurales Family: Lauraceae Genus: Cryptocarya

hōlio [holio]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees up to 3 m tall.

Stems: Young branches dark brown, smooth, glabrous or appressed pubescent, older branches with a gray corky layer.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades variable in size, 6–15 cm long, 3–6(–7) cm wide. Apex rounded to acute. Base rounded. Blades coriaceous, midrib broad, yellow, usually glabrous. Margins entire. Both surfaces with fine reticulate venation. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers few in axillary, strigose or pubescent inflorescences much shorter than leaves, inflorescence branches 2.0 – 4.0 cm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect), yellowish brown or gray pubescent, 3.5 – 4.0 mm long, actinomorphic. Tepals 6, equal, usually arranged in whorls of 3, ca. 1.5 mm long, rather densely pubescent, usually white, greenish white, or yellow, rarely reddish. Fertile stamens 9, outer 6 introrse, inner 3 extrorse and with basal glands, staminodia present; filaments of Stamens of third whorl often with 2 stalked or sessile glands at base; anthers dithecal, opening by valves or small pores. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous.

Fruit: Mature fruit black; subglobose to spherical; 2.6 – 3.1 cm diameter by 3.1 – 3.7 cm long; no umbo (narrow blunt projection) present at terminal end; ribs on mature fruit absent. Seeds without endosperm.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurs in dry to mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 1219 m

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 12(15): 3 (1936)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:847 (Syn. C. oahuensis = C. mannii); Morden et al. 2015:110 (RESURRECT/O, KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep, rocky, loose slope with Alectryon, Psychotria, Perrottetia, Nothocestrum, Neraudia Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 438 Oahu BISH 1981-07-05
2 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist forest, shaded Preserved_Specimen Slender tree. Fruit black, fleshy, smooth, remains of calyx shed when fruit is ripe, mature fruit sperhica, not pointed Fosberg, F.R. 13041 Oahu BISH 1936-04-11
3 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Forest Preserved_Specimen Tree, 20 ft. high Hosaka, E.Y. 1000 Oahu BISH 1933-04-30
4 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On sloping forest with Sideroxylon. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 4402 Oahu BISH 1932-08-07
5 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist decadent forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12282 Oahu BISH 1939-03-25
6 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details 45 egrees exposed slope, mesic summer-dry, soil and rock Preserved_Specimen Two plants are gying - 8 m. x 18 cm. with Alectryon, Antiderina, Nothocestrum Obata, J.K. 327 Oahu BISH 1977-08-14
7 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 10002 Oahu BISH 1935-07-21
8 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist decadent forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12282 Oahu BISH 1939-03-25
9 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sheltered N. slope of gulch Preserved_Specimen Much branching treee Judd, C.S. 74 Oahu BISH 1928-03-29
10 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep, rocky slope. Mixed alien/native forest of Toona, Pouteria, Pisonia, Alectryon, Strongylodon. Preserved_Specimen Tree 6 m tall. Flowers small. Fruit purple/black. Ching, S. Oahu BISH 2012-04-25
11 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On sloping forest with Sideroxylon. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 4402 Oahu BISH 1932-08-07
12 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Associated species: Toona ciliata, Pisonia sandwicensis, Alectryon macrococcus var. macrococcus, Morinda trimera, Pouteria sandwicensis, Strongylodon ruber, Rubus rosifolius, Buddleia asiatica. Preserved_Specimen Ching, S. Oahu BISH 2011-09-27
13 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 7270 Oahu BISH 1932-08-07
14 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Western side ridge Preserved_Specimen 3 small trees. Midrib of leaf yellow. Herbst, D.R. 4099 Oahu BISH 1974-09-01
15 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist decadent forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12282 Oahu BISH 1939-03-25
16 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hewight of tree 15 ft.l, diameter 2 in. Condition poor Landgraf, M.F. Oahu BISH 1955-01-01
17 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Judd, C.S. 50 Oahu BISH 1926-01-01
18 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Montgomery, S.L. Oahu BISH 1970-02-15
19 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1814 Oahu BISH 1912-04-26
20 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Oahu BISH 1922-01-22
21 Cryptocarya oahuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1932-10-01
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