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Gilia capitata

Sims (1826)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Ericales Family: Polemoniaceae Genus: Gilia

blue field gilia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual herbs 2–8 dm tall.

Stems: Stems glabrous to glandular or ± floccose, upper ⅓ of plant branched.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 4–10 cm long, the ultimate segments 1–7 mm long, 0.2–1 mm wide, upper leaves much–reduced. Margins of basal and lower leaves bipinnately dissected. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 50–100, subsessile, in terminal heads 1.4–4 cm in diameter. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx deeply cleft, 5-lobed, ca. 3–4 mm long, the lobes acute, ca. 2 mm long, joined below by the scarious, membranous sinus, the costae green. Corolla connate, pale bluish violet, 6–8 mm long, the lobes 2–4 mm long. Stamens as many as calyx and corolla lobes, adnate to corolla tube, alternate with the lobes; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 3-carpellate, 3-celled; ovule placentation axile; style simple; stigmas as many as carpels.

Fruit: Capsules subglobose; 3–4 mm in diameter; indehiscent or tardily dehiscent; disarticulating on the stipe above the calyx. Seeds 1–6(–10); ovoid; ± angled; 1.6–2 mm long.

Ploidy: 2n = 16; 18

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 2,400–2,500 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Maui Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

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Notes

  • 1929
  • 2400-2500 m
  • Description digitized by Joanne
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bot. Mag. 53: t. 2698 (1826)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1057 (EM)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Gilia capitata Sims east maui, kula, waiakoa PRESERVED_SPECIMEN walker, mrs.b. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 4/1/1932
2 Gilia capitata Sims PRESERVED_SPECIMEN o. degener 10953 MPM 6/29/1927
3 Gilia capitata Sims Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, US Subaalpine shrubland, roadcut PRESERVED_SPECIMEN F. Starr & K. Starr 130723-01 Kauai HAPI 7/23/2013
4 Gilia capitata Sims Haleakala National Park, Front Country, Crater Rd., down from 8500' Eucalyptus grove Subaalpine shrubland, roadcut PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Starr, F.; Starr, K. 130723-01 Maui US 7/23/2013
5 Gilia capitata Sims east maui, haleakala highway, 0.4 miles sw of halemauu parking lot Growing on new fill material along highway. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN nagata, r. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 11/18/1980
6 Gilia capitata Sims East Maui, Kula, Waiakoa PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Walker, Mrs.B. s.n. Maui BISH 4/1/1932
7 Gilia capitata Sims East Maui, Haleakala Highway, 0.4 miles SW of Halemauu parking lot Growing on new fill material along highway. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Nagata, R. s.n. Maui BISH 11/18/1980
8 Gilia capitata Sims East Maui, Haleakala PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Swezey, O.H. s.n. Maui BISH 8/18/1929
9 Gilia capitata Sims East Maui, Haleakala National Park Roadside. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Nagata, K.M. 2572 Maui BISH 11/20/1982
10 Gilia capitata Sims haleakala national park, front country, crater rd., down from 8500' eucalyptus grove Subaalpine shrubland, roadcut PRESERVED_SPECIMEN f. starr & k. starr 130723-01 Maui US 7/23/2013
11 Gilia capitata Sims Haleakala National Park, Front Country, Crater Rd., down from 8500' Eucalyptus grove Subaalpine shrubland, roadcut PRESERVED_SPECIMEN F. Starr & K. Starr 130723-01 Maui US 7/23/2013
12 Gilia capitata Sims Haleakala Crater, near rest house PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Degener, O. 10953 Maui US 6/29/2027
13 Gilia capitata Sims haleakala crater, near rest house PRESERVED_SPECIMEN o. degener 10953 Maui US 6/29/1927
14 Gilia capitata Sims Haleakala National Park, Front Country, Crater Rd, on road cut/lava, down road from 8500' Eucalyptus grove.. Subalpine shrubland/roadcut with Dubautia menziesii, Oenothere stricta subsp. stricta, and Plantago lanceolata. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Starr, F. 130723-01 Maui BISH 7/23/2001
15 Gilia capitata Sims east maui, haleakala PRESERVED_SPECIMEN swezey, o.h. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 8/18/1929
16 Gilia capitata Sims east maui, haleakala national park Roadside. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN nagata, k.m. nagata, r. collector number: 2572 Maui BISH 11/20/1982
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