img

Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Campanulaceae Genus: Clermontia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Epiphytic shrubs or trees.

Stems: Stems branched repeatedly, spreading, light gray or light brown, glabrous or rarely pubescent, with numerous helically arranged leaf scars near apex, pith solid, latex white, viscous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 13–20 cm long, 3–5 cm wide. Apex acuminate or cuspidate. Base cuneate, obtuse, or rounded. Lower surfaces green suffused with purple, especially on the veins. Margins callose–crenulate. Petioles 4–6 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in peduncle 1.4–1.7 cm long; pedicels 3–4.5 cm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect), epigynous, zygomorphic, resupinate, protandrous. Hypanthium 1–1.5 cm long, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, hemispheric or obconic, glabrous. Calyx lobes 1–2 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, triangular; apex acute or acuminate. Corolla 5–7.2 cm long, unilabiate, dark purple, glossy; tube 0.9–1.3 cm in diameter. Stamens 5, syngenesious, alternate with the corolla lobes, staminal column strongly exserted, erect or suberect; anthers connate, dithecal, opening introrsely by longitudinal slits, dark purple or rarely greenish white, the 3 dorsal ones a little longer than the 2 ventral ones, the latter with tufts of stiff white trichomes at apex, rarely so on the surfaces, the tube 1.7–1.8 cm long, 3.5–4.5 mm in diameter, glabrous or sparingly pubescent along sutures and near apex; filaments connate above, free from the corolla, 4.8–6.3 cm long, dark purple or rarely greenish white, glabrous. Pollen tricolporate, prolate, ellipsoidal. Ovary inferior, 2-carpellate, 2-loculed; ovule placentation axile, placentae large; style slender, terete (cylindrical), with a ring of stiff white hairs near apex; stigma 2-lobed, the lobes appressed and non–receptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out pollen, after which the stigmas spread and become receptive.

Fruit: Berries 2.5–3 cm long; subglobose. Seeds numerous; tiny; dark brown or black; minutely foveate–reticulate; shiny; with a straight; short to spatulate dicotyledonous embryo embedded in oily endosperm.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Windward slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa; epiphytic on <i>Metrosideros polymorpha; Acacia koa</i>; and other large trees in montane rain forests.

Elevation Range: 530–1150 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:435 (EM, H [as C. peleana]); Lammers 1991:34 (remove EM spms. to C. peleana subsp. singuliflora, KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN t. g. lammers 5780 USF 6/25/1985
2 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Maui US
3 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Lindsey, T. s.n. Hawaii BISH 6/9/1957
4 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 653.H Hawaii BISH 6/2/1915
5 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 12846 Hawaii BISH 8/30/1917
6 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
7 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros Montane wet Forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wood, k.r. perlman, s. collector number: 2499 Hawaii BISH 6/3/1993
8 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN lindsey, t. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 6/9/1957
9 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: 12846 Oahu BISH 8/30/1917
10 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. s.n. Hawaii BISH 8/30/1917
11 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/1/1912
12 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
13 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Along pole line. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 11/29/1957
14 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/1/1912
15 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN shipman, h.c. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/2/1957
16 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
17 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Along pole line. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. s.n. Hawaii BISH 11/29/1957
18 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
19 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet Koa- ohia forest with other native trees an exotic and native shrub understory. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN warshauer, f.r. collector number: frw 1575 Hawaii BISH 11/29/1977
20 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 720.H Hawaii BISH 6/5/1915
21 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
22 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a tree fern and native shrub understory. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Warshauer, F.R. FRW 1547 Hawaii BISH 11/20/1977
23 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a tree fern and native shrub understory. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN warshauer, f.r. collector number: frw 1547 Hawaii BISH 11/20/1977
24 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 720.h Hawaii BISH 6/5/1915
25 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN warshauer, f.r. collector number: frw 1586 Oahu BISH 12/5/1977
26 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
27 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet Koa- ohia forest with other native trees an exotic and native shrub understory. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Warshauer, F.R. FRW 1575 Hawaii BISH 11/29/1977
28 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In wet Metrosideros rainforest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 4867 Hawaii BISH 7/27/1983
29 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/1/1912
30 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/1/1912
31 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 653.h Hawaii BISH 6/2/1915
32 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information closed Metrosideros mesic forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: 8800 Maui BISH 7/1/1911
33 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In wet Metrosideros rainforest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wagner, w.l. gustafson, r.; martin, w.c.; flynn, t. collector number: 4867 Hawaii BISH 7/27/1983
34 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Wet Koa- ohia forest with other native trees and a treefern, native shrub understory. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Warshauer, F.R. FRW 1586 Hawaii BISH 12/5/1977
35 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
36 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Shipman, H.C. s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/2/1957
37 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/1/1911
38 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Rock, J.F.C. 8800 Hawaii BISH 7/11/1911
39 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros Montane wet Forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. 2499 Hawaii BISH 6/3/1993
40 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros Montane wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2599 Hawaii PTBG 6/3/1993
41 Clermontia peleana subsp. peleana Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN rock, j.f.c. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 8/30/1917
Back to Top