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Melicope haleakalae

(B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone (1989)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Melicope

alani, alani kuahiwi

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or small trees 2–3 m tall, new growth glabrous or with scattered hairs.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Whorled, 4 per node. Blades obovate to spatulate, 6–16 cm long, 3–6 cm wide. Apex rounded and usually emarginate. Base cuneate. Surfaces glabrous except midrib on lower surfaces usually minutely puberulent; blades coriaceous, probably brittle. Margins entire. Primary lateral veins usually 14–18 pairs, connected by a weakly arched vein ca. 1–4 mm from margin, primary lateral veins and submarginal vein only slightly more prominent than higher order venation, which forms an evident reticulate pattern, venation pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern. Petioles 10–15 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in glabrous, fasciculate cymes below the leaves, peduncles 0–1 mm long, pedicels 1–3.5 mm long, bracts small, opposite. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or functionally unisexual (and then plants monoecious). Calyx of 4 sepals; sepals of pistillate flowers thick at base, broadly deltateovate, 5–7 mm long, glabrous, persistent in fruit, imbricate. Corolla of 4 petals; petals valvate; petals of pistillate flowers deltate, 9–11 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, distinct, reduced but always present in functionally pistillate flowers. Ovary superior (pistillate flowers), glabrous, 4-celled and 4-lobed, carpels connate, only slightly distinct at apex to almost entirely distinct; ovules 2 per cell, hemitropous, 1 ascending; style 1, ca. 1.8 mm long, terminating in 4 short stigmatic branches.

Fruit: Capsules 12–13 mm wide; carpels connate ca. ½ their length; 6–6.5 mm long; exocarp glabrous; conspicuously wrinkled when dry; endocarp glabrous. Seeds 1–2 per carpel; 4–4.5 mm long. glossy black when ripe; crustaceous; ovoid; sometimes angled from compression; embryo straight in fleshy endosperm; radicle short; cotyledons compressed; ovate; putamen brown; warty.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from wet forest.

Elevation Range: 610–1,676 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Taxon 38: 122 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1189 (EM [as Pelea haleakalae]); Hartley & Stone 1989:122 (COMBNOV, Syn. P. haleakalae = M. haleakalae)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1277 Maui BISH 1919-08-06
2 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1277 Maui BISH 1919-08-06
3 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 962 Maui BISH 1919-07-27
4 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 2363 Maui BISH 1927-06-27
5 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Scheuer, P.J. Maui BISH 1959-09-01
6 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 953 Maui BISH 1919-07-01
7 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8557 Maui BISH 1927-06-26
8 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 763 Maui BISH 1919-07-14
9 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros polymorpha, Cheirodendron trigynum, Broussaisia arguta, Ilex anomala, Hedyotis hillebrandii, Hedyotis terminalis, Melicope clusiifolia, Melicope orbicularis, Melicope volcanica Preserved_Specimen 3 m tree, diffusely branched, stems medium brown; flower, early fruit Wood, K.R. 5900 Maui BISH 2004-03-16
10 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vegitation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Coprosma, Melicope, Cibotium, Kadua, Psychotria, Smilax, Astelia, Carex, Widstroemia, Myrsine, Broussaisia, Clermontia, Tibouchina, Juncus, Axonopus Preserved_Specimen Scattered and locally common small 2-3 m tall trees in very wet forest on sturated ground. Branches stout, mid vein never purple Oppenheimer, H.L. 81237 Maui BISH 2012-08-28
11 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron trigynum- Dicranopteris linearis montane wet forest. With Broussaisia arguta, sadleria cyathioides, Rubus hawaiiensis, Pittosporum, Gunnera, Leptecophylla, Dryopteris wallichiana, Myrsine lessertiana, Melicope clusifolia, Diplazium sandwichianum, Cyanea Preserved_Specimen Shrub 3 meter ht with flowers Perlman, S. 21745 Maui BISH 2009-08-16
12 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details in stream. Acacia koa- Metrosideros polymorpha mesic forest With Sadleria cyathioides, Pipturus albidus, Clermontia arborescens, Chierodendron trigynum, Broussaisia arguta, Coprosma foliosa, Perrotetia sandwicensis, Melicope clusifolia, Diplazium sandwichian Preserved_Specimen Shrub 4 meter ht with fruit Perlman, S. 23850 Maui BISH 2014-02-11
13 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Melicope, Leptecophylla, Coprosma, Broussaisia, Ilex, Smilax, Cibotium, Sadleria, Athyrium, Diplazium, Clermontia, Kadua, Astelia, Uncinia, Elaphoglossum, Asplenium, Dryopteris, Vaccinium, Peperomia. Preserved_Specimen Small trees to 3m tall; branches stout, flowers born on stem below leaves; leaves without anise or citrus odor when crushed Oppenheimer, H.L. 61227 Maui BISH 2012-06-28
14 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Broussaisia, Ilex, Melicope, Myrsine, Coprosma, Rubus, Vaccinium, Leptecophylla, Sadleria, Dubautia, Pseudophegopteris, Athyrium, Dryopteris, Smilax, Arachniodes, Oreogrammitis, Peperomia, Pteris, Pneumatopteris, Marattia, Coniogramme, Elaphoglossum, Polystichum, Asplenium, Carex, Astelia, Uncinia. Preserved_Specimen Probably dozens of small trees to 3m, maybe 100's, but few fertile and mixed with M. clusiifolia, along several hundred meters starting at about this elevation. Oppenheimer, H.L. 51104 Maui BISH 2011-05-10
15 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27584 Maui BISH 1961-07-02
16 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In forest. Preserved_Specimen Sepals persistent on fruit. Lane, I.E. Maui BISH 1959-01-01
17 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Scattered in open sites in this area and to the east beyond the west fork of Hanawi Stream, often with Melicope clusiifolia. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Coprosma, Vaccinium, Broussaisia, Myrsine, Astelia, Smilax, Sadleria, Dryopteris, Dicranopteris, Sticherus, Astelia, Elaphoglossum, Leptecophylla. Preserved_Specimen 3m tall, lanky shrubs. Oppenheimer, H.L. 100613 Maui BISH 2006-10-11
18 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8564 Maui BISH 1927-06-24
19 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rain-forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8564 Maui BISH 1927-06-24
20 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Broussaisia, Kadua, Dicranopteris, Myrsine, Ilex, Dubautia, Smilax, Coprosma, Sadleria, Dryopteris, Rubus, Diplazium, Sticherus, Uncinia Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 80821 Maui BISH 2008-08-14
21 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rain-forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8584 Maui BISH 1927-06-21
22 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Scattered in open sites in this area and to the east beyond the west fork of Hanawi Stream, often with Melicope clusiifolia. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Coprosma, Vaccinium, Broussaisia, Myrsine, Astelia, Smilax, Sadleria, Dryopteris, Dicranopteris, Sticherus, Astelia, Elaphoglossum, Leptecophylla. Preserved_Specimen 3m tall, lanky shrubs. Oppenheimer, H.L. 100613 Maui BISH 2006-10-11
23 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Locally common in understory on ridge from Ainahou Pali into Koolau Gap. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Broussaisia, Myrsine, Clermontia, Coprosma, Kadua, Rubus, Ilex, Vaccinium, Leptecophylla, Smilax, Astelia, Asplenium, Dryopteris, Diplazium, Peperomia, Uncinia, Sadleria, Cibotium, Athyrium, Elaphoglossum, Polypodium. Preserved_Specimen Samll trees Oppenheimer, H.L. 11001 Maui BISH 2010-01-07
24 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Melicope, Leptecophylla, Coprosma, Broussaisia, Ilex, Smilax, Cibotium, Sadleria, Athyrium, Diplazium, Clermontia, Kadua, Astelia, Uncinia, Elaphoglossum, Asplenium, Dryopteris, Vaccinium, Peperomia. Preserved_Specimen Small trees to 3m tall; branches stout, flowers born on stem below leaves. Leaves without anise or citrus odor when crushed Oppenheimer, H.L. 61226 Maui BISH 2012-06-28
25 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Along streambed composed of old lava tube. In rain-forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 2364 Maui BISH 1927-06-20
26 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Occasional small tree, ca. 8 ft tall. Calyx green; corolla yellow-green; filaments whitish, anthers brown; ovary green; fruit green. Crosby, M.R. 1775 Maui BISH 1964-07-16
27 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rain-forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8566 Maui BISH 1927-06-21
28 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Tree 4 m. tall. Lamoureux, C.H. 3979 Maui BISH 1967-08-09
29 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Plants to 3 m. high. Lamoureux, C.H. 3864 Maui BISH 1967-08-06
30 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 2363 Maui BISH 1927-06-27
31 Melicope haleakalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 756 Maui BISH 1919-07-01
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