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Kokia lanceolata

Lewton (1912)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malvales Family: Malvaceae Genus: Kokia

hau hele ‘ula [hau hele ula], koki‘o [kokio]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Apparently small trees. (prob. 3–4 m tall).

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades orbicular in outline, 8–12.5 cm wide, 7–lobed with shallow, angulate, or deltate divisions. Base subtruncate. Surfaces glabrate except leaf surfaces pubescent in axils of major veins near base. Margins entire or nearly so. Petioles usually as Iong as or longer than blades, deciduous with prominent scars. Stipules caducous.

Flowers: Flowers solitary, clustered near the ends of the branches, axillary, pedicels 3.5-5 cm long, articulate near middle, terminal nectaries absent; involucral bracts 3, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 30-38 mm long, 8-13 mm wide, distinct or connate basally, entire or lobed, apex acute to subacuminate, pubescent near base or glabrous, accrescent and leathery in fruit. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 1.5–2 cm long, composed of connate sepals, cylindrical, 2-5-lobed, splitting irregularly, glabrous, the lobes valvate in bud. Corolla zygomorphic, orangish red to scarlet or brick-red, curved in bud, densely yellowish silky pubescent, corolla of 5 petals, 10 cm long, obovate, reflexed above at anthesis, twisted at base, adnate at base to staminal column. Stamens 5 to numerous, monadelphous, forming a staminal column 10 cm long, staminal column exserted, curved; antheriferous in upper 1/3-1/2, terminated by 5 teeth; anthers monothecal. Pollen globose, echinate. Ovary superior, 5-celled; ovules 1 per cell, the carpels borne in a single whorl or rarely seemingly superposed whorls, placentation axile; style clavate, exceeding the staminal column, unbranched and stigmatically lobed at apex; stigma 5-lobed, sulcate, terminal or decurrent.

Fruit: Capsules unknown. Seeds unknown.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Hills in dry areas of East Oahu.

Elevation Range: Unknown

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • <1000 feet high
  • Actually extinct since late 1800?s or early 1900?s
  • Description digitized by Jonah Tiwanak
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 60(5): 4 (1912)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:891 (O)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Kokia lanceolata Lewton Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On steep shady, rocky slope. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Myrsine, Cheirodendron, Dodonaea, Leptecophylla, Wikstroemia, Hedyotis, Alyxia, Nestegis, Pouteria, Urera, Pipturus, Vaccinium, Coprosma, Smilax, Microlepia, Sadleria, Cyrtomium, Coniogramme, Dryopteris, Selaginella, Doodia, Pteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH
2 Kokia lanceolata Lewton Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. collector number: s.n. Oahu BISH
3 Kokia lanceolata Lewton Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN w. hillebrand GH
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