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Cyanea profuga

C.N.Forbes (1916)

This name is accepted

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

hāhā [haha]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Unbranched shrubs 1.8–2.4 m tall.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades elliptic, blades 18–24 cm long, 7–10 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Base cuneate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins callose–dentate. Petioles 8–12.5 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences 9–12–flowered, peduncles 25–40 mm long, pedicels 8–10 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect); hypanthium oblong to obconical, 6–7 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Calyx lobes oblong, 3–5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, apex rounded and apiculate. Corolla white, 30–35 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, glabrous, the tube suberect, the lobes spreading, ¾ as long to as long as the tube. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes, connate; staminal column glabrous; anthers glabrous, the lower 2 with apical tufts of white hairs. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovule placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed, wet or dry, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Berries unknown. Seeds: mature seeds not seen.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from the type (Forbes 313.Mo; BISH; MO; NY; UC) and one other specimen (Forbes 240.Mo; BISH); collected in 1912 at Mapulehu and Pelekunu; respectively; eastern Moloka'i.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic
Maui Only found in cultivation

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 6: 70 (1916)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:460 (Mo); Wood 2007:15 (REDISCOVER/Mo)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyanea profuga Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cultivated seedlings Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 101006 Maui BISH 2010-10-05
2 Cyanea profuga Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Ten plants in this gulch, along both sides of stream and on steep slopes near perennial stream. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Perrottetia, Coprosma, Kadua, Broussaisia, Cyrtandra, Cibotium, Clermontia, Sadleria, Diplazium, Pipturus, Urera, Myrsine, Alyxia, Cyanea, Christella, Vandenboschia, Peperomia, Rubus Preserved_Specimen Many branched from base to 2m tall, sometimes branches leaning on adjacent vegetation; latex white; fruit bright orange; elliptic to oblong, sepals caduceus. Oppenheimer, H.L. 110904 Molokai BISH 2009-11-10
3 Cyanea profuga Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 313 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
4 Cyanea profuga Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 240 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
5 Cyanea profuga Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 313 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
6 Cyanea profuga Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 313 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
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