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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 Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros- Didranopteris linearis wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 18253 Molokai PTBG 9/11/2002
2 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Cultivated. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H101006 Maui PTBG 10/5/2010
3 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 313.mo Kauai US
4 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 240 m Molokai BISH 7/1/1912
5 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 313.mo Molokai BISH 7/1/1912
6 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 240 M Molokai BISH 7/1/1912
7 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 313.Mo Molokai BISH 7/1/1912
8 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information 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 Oppenheimer, H.L. H110904 Molokai BISH 11/10/2009
9 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Cultivated seedlings PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H101006 Maui BISH 10/5/2010
10 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros riparian mesic to wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 10023 Molokai PTBG 11/22/2002
11 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 313m. NY
12 Cyanea profuga C.N.Forbes Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros riparian mesic to wet forest. Growing in rich brown silty soil with talus, 25% open, east aspect along stream. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 10024 Molokai PTBG 11/22/2002
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