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Cyanea pycnocarpa

(Hillebr.) E.Wimm. (1943)

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: Palm-like trees, height unknown.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades narrowly elliptic, blades ca. 34 cm long, ca. 4.5 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Base cuneate. Upper surfaces green, glabrous; lower surfaces pale green, pubescent along the midrib and veins. Margins undulate and callose–denticulate. Petioles 3–4 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers sessile on peduncles 60–70 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx lobes triangular in fruit, 4–5 mm long. Corolla unknown. Stamens unknown. 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 ovoid; ca. 12 mm wide; crowned by the persistent calyx lobes. Seeds numerous.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from the type (Hillebrand s.n. B; presumably destroyed) collected in the Kohala Mountains; Hawai'i.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 276b: 53 (1943)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:461 (H); Hillebrand 1888/Wood et al. 2019 (EXTINCT, 1871)

Fosberg, F. R., & Herbst, D. (1975). Rare and endangered species of Hawaiian vascular plants. Allertonia, 1(1), 1-72.

Lammers, T. G. (2005). Revision of Delissea (Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae). Systematic botany monographs, 1-75.

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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