Schiedea pubescens

Hillebr. (1888)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Caryophyllaceae Genus: Schiedea

ma oli oli

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Reclining or weakly climbing vines.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes, primary stems 10–60 dm long, green with a purple tinge or purple–spotted, glabrous proximally, puberulent or glabrate in the inflorescence.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades lanceolate to ovate or broadly ovate, usually inconspicuously falcate, 6–18.7 cm long, 3–7.5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate or sometimes obtuse with a small mucronate tip. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem, base cuneate to broadly obtuse. Surfaces glaborous, occasionally with a few scattered hairs on Lower surfaces side of the younger leaves; blades coriaceous, purple–tinged or purple–spotted, especially along the midrib, with only the midvein evident. Margins slightly thickened, occasionally with a few scattered antrorsely hooked hairs 0.1–0.15 mm long. Midvein excentric, ± purple. Petioles 0.5–3.1 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence terminal, with 30–88 flowers, 30–50 (–150) cm long, open, diffuse, sparsely to densely puberulent in the inflorescence, the hairs purple, 0.15–0.3 mm long; bracts green, purple–tinged or purple–spotted, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate or the smallest ones subulate, those of central axis 2.5–11 mm long, those of branches and flowers 1.5–3 mm long; pedicels 6–18 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals 2.8–3.5 mm long, lanceolate, purple, or green with a purple midvein, opaque, strongly reflexed in the proximal ¼, producing a large transverse bulge, distal part deeply navicular and usually weakly inrolled toward the apex, oriented at 0° to 10° angle to the pedicel, sparsely to densely puberulent, margins scarious and densely ciliate, apex long–attenuate. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 10; filaments strongly dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl usually erect, 4.5–5.5 mm long, the alternate greatly reduced, 0.6–1.3 mm long; anthers dimorphic, those of the antisepalous Stamens 0.8–0.9 mm long, those of the alternate Stamens 0.55–0.6 mm long, yellow. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles 3 (–4).

Fruit: Capsules 2.5–3 mm long; ovoid. Seeds 0.9–1.1 mm long; orbicular–reniform; compressed; the surface transversely rugose; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Rare; in mesic to wet forest.

Elevation Range: 640–1220 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic
Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Clyde Imada.
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Scattered in diverse mesic forest, 600-900 m, Maunakapu to Mount Ka'ala, Wai.anae Mountains, O'ahu, and mesic to wet forest, 500-900 m, Pelekunu to Kala'e, Moloka.i, southern half of Ldna'ihale, Ldna.i, and Makawao,Hamdkua, Olowalu Valley, and K6,anapali, Mau
  • Two varieties are recognized within Schiedea pubescens: var. pubescens [incl. S. nuttalii var. intermedia, S. n. var. molokaiensis, S. pubescen^s var. degeneri, S. p. var. hillebrandii, S. p. var. Ianaiensisf with puberulent to subglabrous inflorescences and ovate to broadly ovate leaves (Moloka'i, Ldna'i, and Maui); and var. purpurascens with densely puberulent inflorescences and narrowly lanceolate leaves that are sometimes somewhat falcate (O.ahu). Schiedeo pubescens is very closely related to S. nuttallii and differs primarily in its vining habit and nearly always puberulent inflorescences; this separation is not complete, however, since ,S. nuttqllii is puberulent on Kaua'i and S. pubescens is subglabrous on Ldna'i, Moloka'i, and Maui. Schiedea nuttallii vars. intermedia and molokaiensis are known from only fragmentary collections but appear to belong under S. pubescens, rather than,S. nuttailii.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 21 (1888)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:519 (Mo, L, M [as S. pubescens var. pubescens], O [as var. purpurascens]); Wagner et al. 2005:99 (remove O [var. purpurascens an invalid name, renamed S. pentandra], KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H59914 Maui PTBG 5/16/1999
2 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros mixed wet riparian vegetation. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 10604 Molokai PTBG 3/11/2004
3 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Vladimir J. Krajina 620401125 UBC 4/1/1962
4 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H41410 Maui PTBG 4/10/2014
5 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mesic Styphelia–Dodonaea shrubland with emergent Metrosideros and occasional pockets of mesic forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 11580 Maui PTBG 10/12/2005
6 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman & k. marr 11977 Maui US 6/9/1991
7 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Hughes III, G. C. 10603 Molokai US 3/10/2004
8 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN w. b. hillebrand s.n. Kauai US
9 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oahu US
10 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 14684 Molokai US 2/21/1995
11 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Marr, K. 11977 Maui US 6/9/1991
12 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & s. p. perlman 9191 US 11/15/2001
13 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P. 14682 Molokai US 2/21/1995
14 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & g. hughes iii 10603 Maui US 3/10/2004
15 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN S. P. Perlman 14682 Molokai US 2/21/1995
16 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P. 9191 Maui US 11/15/2001
17 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P. 4087 Molokai US 2/21/1995
18 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 341.L Lanai BISH 9/1/1917
19 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Munro, G.C. s.n. Lanai BISH 3/11/1922
20 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In shade along stream PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 14682 Oahu US 2/21/1995
21 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. marr, k. collector number: 11977 Maui BISH 6/9/1991
22 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. medeiros, a.c. collector number: 3295 Maui BISH 6/4/1991
23 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On both sides of narrow, 2-3m wide gully. On ledges 2m above intermittent tributary. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Clermontia, Dicranopteris, Sticherus, Diplopterygium, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Carex, Cyperus, Cyrtandra, Christella, Kadua, Alyxia, Lycopodium, Sadleria, Selaginella. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. Perlman, S. Collector Number: H80704 Molokai BISH 8/29/2007
24 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Rare, sprawling on ground as well as climbing adjacent vegetation in small ravine in dense shade, heavily eaten by Derocerus slugs. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Dodonaea, Dicranopteris, Diplopterygium, Freycinetia, Broussaisia, Coprosma, Perrottetia, Kadua, Cyrtandra, Alyxia, Ilex, Myrsine, Melicope, Nothocestrum, Cibotium, Sadleria, Diplazium, Athyrium, Pipturus, Touchardia, Urera, Cyanea, Clermontia, Peperomia, Tibouchina, Rubus. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H81317 Maui BISH 8/7/2013
25 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 34.mo Molokai BISH 6/1/1912
26 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information scrambling through thicket PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Degener, O. 23745 Molokai BISH 11/19/1954
27 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information growing in a tangle of ieie and other vegetation. The only plant of the kind I have seen PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Munro, G.C. 695 Lanai BISH 3/11/1922
28 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 2328.m Maui BISH 5/12/1920
29 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Observed along dark stream bed, dangling on vertical bank, rooted 3 m above in soil. Vegetation: Cheirodendron, Antidesma, Myrsine, Cyrtandra, Hedyotis, Freycinetia, Xylosma, Urera, Pipturus, Pouteria, Boehmeria, Sadleria, Tectaria, Psidium, Buddleia, Rubus, Tibouchina. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H20620 Maui BISH 2/23/2006
30 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information ~25 acre vacant lot PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. collector number: s.n. Kauai BISH
31 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 341.l Lanai BISH 9/1/1917
32 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 34.Mo Molokai BISH 6/1/1912
33 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. lydgate, j.m. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-08
34 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Woods PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 230.M Maui BISH 7/1/1910
35 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on a sunny ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. Duvall, F. Collector Number: H59913 Maui BISH 5/16/1999
36 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 424.Mo Molokai BISH 8/1/1912
37 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 424.mo Molokai BISH 8/8/1912
38 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 270.l Lanai BISH 6/1/1913
39 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 270.L Lanai BISH 6/1/1913
40 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 3295 Maui BISH 6/4/1991
41 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Psychotria mariniana, Melicope molokaiensis, Touchardia latifolia, Urera glabra, Cyanea solenocalyx, ferns PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. 10603 Molokai BISH 3/10/2004
42 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on a sunny ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H59913 Maui BISH 5/16/1999
43 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In degraded Metrosideros lowland wet forest with broussaisia, Antidesma, charpentiera, Pipturus, Clermontia kakeana, Freycinetia, dodonaea, Sadleria, Diplazium sandwichianum, Cibotium, Cyanea elliptica, Wikstroemia, Melinus, Kalanchoe, Rubus PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S.P. Collector Number: 14682 Molokai BISH 2/21/1995
44 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Woods PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 230.m Maui BISH 7/1/1910
45 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In degraded Metrosideros lowland wet forest with broussaisia, Antidesma, charpentiera, Pipturus, Clermontia kakeana, Freycinetia, dodonaea, Sadleria, Diplazium sandwichianum, Cibotium, Cyanea elliptica, Wikstroemia, Melinus, Kalanchoe, Rubus PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 14682 Molokai BISH 2/21/1995
46 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN munro, g.c. collector number: s.n. Lanai BISH 3/11/1922
47 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information scrambling through thicket PRESERVED_SPECIMEN degener, o. degener, i. collector number: 23745 Molokai BISH 11/19/1954
48 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH 1870-00-00
49 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Observed along dark stream bed, dangling on vertical bank, rooted 3 m above in soil. Vegetation: Cheirodendron, Antidesma, Myrsine, Cyrtandra, Hedyotis, Freycinetia, Xylosma, Urera, Pipturus, Pouteria, Boehmeria, Sadleria, Tectaria, Psidium, Buddleia, Rubus, Tibouchina. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. brosius, c. collector number: h20620 Maui BISH 2/23/2006
50 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Creeping like a vine through thick freycinetia PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Munro, G.C. 535 Lanai BISH 5/11/1922
51 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information growing in a tangle of ieie and other vegetation. The only plant of the kind I have seen PRESERVED_SPECIMEN munro, g.c. collector number: 695 Lanai BISH 3/11/1922
52 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. lydgate, j.m. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-08
53 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information along perennial stream. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Planchonella, Pisonia, Perrottetia, Freycinetia, Coprosma, Psychotria, Pipturus, Urera, Touchardia, Cyanea, Myrsine, Dodonaea, Xylosma, Cyrtandra, Tectaria, Diplazium, Marattia, Smilax, Peperomia, Buddleia, Microlepia, Lepisorus, Pteris, and Tectaria. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H41410 Maui BISH 4/10/2016
54 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Psychotria mariniana, Melicope molokaiensis, Touchardia latifolia, Urera glabra, Cyanea solenocalyx, ferns PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wood, k.r. hughes, g. collector number: 10603 Molokai BISH 3/10/2004
55 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 11977 Maui BISH 6/9/1991
56 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In degraded Metrosideros lowland wet forest with broussaisia, Antidesma, charpentiera, Pipturus, Clermontia kakeana, Freycinetia, dodonaea, Sadleria, Diplazium sandwichianum, Cibotium, Cyanea elliptica, Wikstroemia, Melinus, Kalanchoe, Rubus PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 14682 Molokai BISH 2/21/1995
57 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on a sunny ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. duvall, f. collector number: h59913 Maui BISH 5/16/1999
58 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On both sides of narrow, 2-3m wide gully. On ledges 2m above intermittent tributary. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Clermontia, Dicranopteris, Sticherus, Diplopterygium, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Carex, Cyperus, Cyrtandra, Christella, Kadua, Alyxia, Lycopodium, Sadleria, Selaginella. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. perlman, s. collector number: h80704 Molokai BISH 8/29/2007
59 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Creeping like a vine through thick freycinetia PRESERVED_SPECIMEN munro, g.c. collector number: 535 Lanai BISH 5/11/1922
60 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 287.Mo. Molokai BISH 7/1/1912
61 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. s.n. MEL 1870-08-09
62 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In degraded Metrosideros lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 14682 Molokai PTBG 2/21/1995
63 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros lowland wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 11977 Maui PTBG 6/9/1991
64 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros - Styphelia shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 9191 Maui PTBG 11/15/2001
65 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4087 Molokai PTBG 2/21/1995
66 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosidros montane wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 7319-A Maui PTBG 5/14/1998
67 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H59914 Maui PTBG 5/16/1999
68 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 10603 Molokai PTBG 3/10/2004
69 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Dicranopteris Montane Wet Forest & Shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 5970 Maui PTBG 1/6/1997
70 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & s. p. perlman 4087 Molokai US 2/21/1995
71 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H81317 Maui PTBG 8/7/2013
72 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H20620 Maui PTBG 2/23/2006
73 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On both sides of narrow, 2-3m wide gully. On ledges 2m above intermittent tributary. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Clermontia, Dicranopteris, Sticherus, Diplopterygium, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Carex, Cyperus, Cyrtandra, Christella, Kadua, Alyxia, Lycopodium, Sadleria, Selaginella. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H80704 Molokai BISH 8/29/2007
74 Schiedea pubescens Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN w. hillebrand GH 1870-08-06