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Wilkesia gymnoxiphium

A.Gray (1852)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Wilkesia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect, unbranched or occasionally sparsely branched, monocarpic or polycarpic rosette shrubs 1–5 m tall.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Whorled. Blades linear Apex acute. Base sheathing. Margins ciliate or entire.

Flowers:

Fruit: Fruit a simple; dry achene (cypsela); black or gray in color; linear; surface with ascending silky hairs (sericeous); with a pappus.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurring on dry ridges or in open sites in dry to mesic forest; ca. 425–1;100 m

Elevation Range: 425–1100 m

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
O'ahu Only found in cultivation

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 2: 160 (1852)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:375 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Reed, M. Kauai BISH 1908-08-10
2 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Henrickson, J.S. 4037 Kauai BISH 1969-07-01
3 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 535 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
4 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1699 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
5 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Chock, A.K. 938 Kauai BISH 1953-08-14
6 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5264 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
7 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1699 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
8 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 425 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
9 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 425 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
10 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 425 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
11 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12630 Kauai BISH 1940-01-03
12 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 535 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
13 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 535 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
14 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1699 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
15 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27271 Kauai BISH 1960-12-02
16 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 25551 Kauai BISH 1955-06-20
17 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 225 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
18 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1699 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
19 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 1967 Kauai BISH 1971-06-30
20 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 25551 Kauai BISH 1955-06-20
21 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1956-02-01
22 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Kauai BISH 1932-06-28
23 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
24 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Kauai BISH 1932-06-28
25 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Kauai BISH 1932-06-28
26 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Kauai BISH 1932-06-28
27 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
28 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
29 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 225 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
30 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 535 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
31 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 225 Kauai BISH 1909-10-01
32 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 225 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
33 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. Kauai BISH
34 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On dry eroded barren soil. Preserved_Specimen Up to 12' high. Flowering heads cream colored. Inflorescence gummy, sticky. All stages from seedlings to fruit. Gillett, G.W. 1764 Kauai BISH 1965-06-08
35 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dry open parts of Acacia koa forest with Cyathodes and Dianella. Preserved_Specimen Carlquist, S. 10 Kauai BISH 1953-08-13
36 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Open plateau. Preserved_Specimen Kato, T. Kauai BISH 1959-12-01
37 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dry open parts of Acacia koa forest, with Cyathodes and Dianella. Preserved_Specimen Carlquist, S. 10 Kauai BISH 1953-08-13
38 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On dryish high cut bank of road. Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 847 Kauai BISH 1955-06-19
39 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry exposed situation near main road. Preserved_Specimen Bush, W. 8010 Kauai BISH 1932-06-01
40 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In scrub. Preserved_Specimen Injured specimen that abnormally produced 5 flowering stems. Degener, O. 12632 Kauai BISH 1939-12-24
41 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Scrub, often on almost bare windswept clay. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12631 Kauai BISH 1940-01-03
42 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bare patches on west slope overlooking Kokee Stream. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21486 Kauai BISH 1952-01-01
43 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Transition between wet and dry forest. Preserved_Specimen Tree, 10 to 12 ft. tall, 2-1/2 in. at base. 13 leaves fused into verticillate sheaths; all series clustered at apex; inflorescence very sticky; monocarpic. Stern, W.L. 1266 Kauai BISH 1961-08-01
44 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry soil. Preserved_Specimen Unbranched softwooded shrub 3 m tall, lvs crowded apically. Infl. terminal, covered with green sticky bracts. Common locally. van Balgooy, M.M.J. 4247 Kauai BISH 1982-06-01
45 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sunny, moderately dry situation. Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. 8009 Kauai BISH 1932-06-01
46 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bare patches on west slope overlooking Kokee Stream. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21486 Kauai BISH 1952-01-01
47 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing on barren scrubland in assos. w/Scaevola and Schinus. Preserved_Specimen Tall single stem herb 2 m tall. Leaves in whorls of 10+ at top of stem; linear; connate at base. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowering heads yellow. Leaves and inflors. sticky. Spence, G. 185 Kauai BISH 1973-07-24
48 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details The plant receives full sun and no water besides rainfall. Preserved_Specimen 2.5 m tall. Branching at base. Two branches have flowered and died in previous years. Two remain, now flowering. The inflorescence is covered with a fragrant glandular secretion. The corollas are chartreuse. Lau, J. 1181 Oahu BISH 1985-07-07
49 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details The plant receives full sun and no water besides rainfall. Preserved_Specimen 2.5 m tall. Branching at base. Two branches have flowered and died in previous years. Two remain, now flowering. The inflorescence is covered with a fragrant glandular secretion. The corollas are chartreuse. Lau, J. 1181 Oahu BISH 1985-07-07
50 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details The plant receives full sun and no water besides rainfall. Preserved_Specimen 2.5 m tall. Branching at base. Two branches have flowered and died in previous years. Two remain, now flowering. The inflorescence is covered with a fragrant glandular secretion. The corollas are chartreuse. Lau, J. 1181 Oahu BISH 1985-07-07
51 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On dryish high cut bank of road. Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. Kauai BISH 1955-06-19
52 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry ridge. Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2922 Kauai BISH 1938-08-14
53 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sunny, dry ridge, among shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Neal, M.C. Kauai BISH 1936-08-14
54 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On dry eroded barren soil. Preserved_Specimen Up to 12' high. Flowering heads cream colored. Inflorescence gummy, sticky. All stages from seedlings to fruit. Gillett, G.W. 1764 Kauai BISH 1965-06-08
55 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Single-stemmed monocarpic plant to ca. 3 m high branching only in the inflorescence, apparently due to a pathological condition. Only one plant like this seen. Fay, J.J. 143 Kauai BISH 1973-11-02
56 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details North face of gulch. Remnent `ohi`a - koa forest heavily grazed with guava and Lantana. Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1977-07-22
57 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Unbranched monocarpic shrub to ca. 3 m high. Fay, J.J. 145 Kauai BISH 1973-11-02
58 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 3 m tall; fl. green. Larsen, N. Kauai BISH 1951-06-08
59 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 225 Kauai BISH 1909-02-01
60 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 3 m. tall, fl. green. Larsen, N. Kauai BISH 1951-06-08
61 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 535 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
62 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1699 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
63 Wilkesia gymnoxiphium Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 25551 Kauai BISH 1957-01-01
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