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Lysimachia filifolia

C.N.Forbes & Lydgate (1916)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Ericales Family: Primulaceae Genus: Lysimachia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small shrubs 1.5–5 dm tall.

Stems: Young stems viscid or glabrous to sparsely pubescent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, but often closely spaced and appearing subopposite or subverticillate. Blades linear–filiform, 15–54 mm long, 0.3–1.8 mm wide. Apex bluntly acute. Surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Margins entire. 1-veined. Sessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic, solitary in the leaf axils, 5–6-merous, pedicels ca. 18–30 mm long, elongating to 45–60 mm long in fruit, viscid or sparsely puberulent, bracteate, bracteoles absent. Calyx of 5 sepals; Calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, 4–5.3 mm long, enlarging up to ca. 6 mm long in fruit. Corolla reddish purple, campanulate, 6–10 mm long, the lobes narrowly obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as and opposite the corolla lobes; filaments connate at base, adnate to corolla tube; anthers dithecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; style 1.

Fruit: Capsules ovoid; thick and hard; 5–6 mm long; regularly dehiscent. Seeds numerous; nearly black; irregularly shaped; 1–1.1 mm long; seed coat crustaceous.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 6(1): 74 (1916)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1080 (K, O); Marr & Bohm 1997:266 (KEY, DESCR); Wood 2012:97 (REDISCOVER/K); Wood & Kirkpatrick 2014:30 (REDISCOVER/K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Plant growing on rock faces of 3 large waterfalls in this area. Found only where exposed to direct spray of waterfall. Also growing in this area are Pelea, Selaginella, Eragrostis variabilis, Blechnum, Cuphea, liverworts & mosses. Sample from 3rd waterfall from SW end of ditch trail Preserved_Specimen Funk, E.J. 211 Oahu BISH 1984-01-08
2 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cultivated Preserved_Specimen shrub 40 cm tall, erect with abundant multi-stems, arching with length, stems purple-red or red-orange, leaves medium green, corolla pale purple or with tan-yellow mottle, calyx green Wood, K.R. 14727 Kauai BISH 2011-07-20
3 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros wet forest with wet diff communities. W/ Cheirodendron, Pipturus spp., Dubautia, Cyrtandra, Kadua centranthoides, K. elatior, K. foggiana, Psychotria, Melicope, Machaerina, Isachne, with ferns of Microlepia, Asplenium, Christella, Deparia. Preserved_Specimen Sub-shrub 25 - 100 cm tall, on wet cliff near landslide, fls pendent, light purple, ca 30 plants. Wood, K.R. 12764 Kauai BISH 2008-01-12
4 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On face of a vertical dry waterfall; assoc. w/Isachne, Eupatorium & Selaginella. Grows in well aerated vertical wet rock face. C Preserved_Specimen Corolla red purple, calyx deltoid & distinctly acuminate, green w/outer margins & base reddish brown; flws solitary, pedicel as long as leaves; mid-Nov. to early Jan., not commonly in bloom. Obata, J.K. 90689 Oahu BISH 1990-01-14
5 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Population ca.100-200 plants; in flower and with immature fruits. Obata, J.K. 90705 Oahu BISH 1990-06-28
6 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH 1912-01-01
7 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Against cliff face on the W fork, on sheer rock face where water drips. Preserved_Specimen In flower & w/immature fruits. Population ca. 50 plants. Obata, J.K. 90703 Oahu BISH 1990-06-28
8 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Plant growing on rock faces of 3 large waterfalls in this area. Found only where exposed to direct spray of waterfall. Also growing in this area are Pelea, Selaginella, Eragrostis variabilis, Blechnum, Cuphea, liverworts & mosses. Sample from 3rd waterfall from SW end of ditch trail Preserved_Specimen Funk, E.J. 211 Oahu BISH 1984-01-08
9 Lysimachia filifolia Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros wet forest with wet diff communities. W/ Cheirodendron, Pipturus spp., Dubautia, Cyrtandra, Kadua centranthoides, K. elatior, K. foggiana, Psychotria, Melicope, Machaerina, Isachne, with ferns of Microlepia, Asplenium, Christella, Deparia. Preserved_Specimen Teresstrial in Diplazium with Boehmeria grandis, 1.5 m tall with erect stems brown-red, pendent corolla light purple, around land slide, also on wet cliff, ca 30 plants. Wood, K.R. 12774 Kauai BISH 2008-01-12
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