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Sicyos lanceoloideus

(H.St.John) W.L.Wagner & D.R.Herbst (1999)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Cucurbitales Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Sicyos

‘ānunu [anunu]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial vines up to 15 m long, base more or less woody for several m, up to 3 cm in diameter.

Stems: New season's stems glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades broadly ovate with a narrow basal sinus, 4–15 cm long, 7–16 cm wide, shallowly and palmately 3–5–lobed, the lobes broadly triangular. Apex acute, mucronate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins denticulate. Petiolate. Stipules absent, tendrils in the stipular position 2–3–branched.

Flowers: Flowers in staminate flowers in glabrous panicles 8–20 cm long, peduncles 5–8 cm long, pedicels 5–10 mm long; pistillate flowers 6–10 per head, peduncles 1.3–3 cm long, subsessile or on pedicels up to 4 mm long. Flowers usually unisexual (and the plants monoecious or dioecious), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals; sepals inserted on hypanthium. Corolla of staminate flowers 5-lobed, 8–10 mm in diameter, the lobes white, ovate–triangular, petals inserted on hypanthium alternate with calyx lobes, usually connate at base, the limb often rotate; Corolla of pistillate flowers 3–5(6)-lobed, usually smaller than in staminate flowers. Staminate flowers: anthers coherent. Staminate flowers: Stamens (2)3(–5), inserted at base of hypanthium; filaments connate into a column; anthers curved or flexuous, coherent and twisted in a head, opening by longitudinal slits; pistillate flowers: staminodes absent. Ovary inferior, of a single carpel or 3-carpellate with carpels connate into a single 3-lobed cell; ovule 1, placentation parietal; stigma shortly 3-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit green; fusiform; 13–25 mm long (incl. beak); 6–8 mm in diameter; 3–6–angled; beaked; indehiscent. Seeds 1 per fruit; ovate; endosperm absent.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurring usually on ridges or spurs in mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 500–1,300 m.

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: Novon 9: 444 (1999)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:581 (K, O [as Sicyos sp. A]); Wagner & Shannon 1999:444 (Syn. S. sp. A = S. lanceoloideus)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Sicyos lanceoloideus Waimea Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 604 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
2 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Woods, trailing over Railliardia latifolia. Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1596 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
3 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 776 Kauai BISH 1917-07-07
4 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 59 Kauai BISH 1909-07-18
5 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details mixed mesic forest, gulch; Pritchardia minor, Tetraplasandra kavaiense, Pleomele, Dodonaea, Myrsine lanaiensis, Psychotria greenwelliae, Acacia koa, Santalum, Hibiscus waimeae, Lantana, Grevillea robusta, Diospyros, Metrosideros Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 8654 Kauai BISH 2000-08-31
6 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Degraded Diverse Mesic Forest Dodonaea, Diospyros sandwicensis, Sideroxylon, Pouteria, Mestrosideros, Psychotria, Kadua, Bobea, Myrsine, Nestegis, Rauvolfia, Pleomele, understory of Doryopteris decora and weeds Preserved_Specimen Vineon Lantana, Leaves thin, hairs above and below. Stem w/ hairs. Leaf tip fine. Male flower green bud w/ yellow inside. Immature female fruit below. Bracts dying brown and falling Tangalin, N. 3098 Kauai BISH 2012-04-09
7 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Pisonia, guava, ohia; crawling over surrounding plants Preserved_Specimen 3 m high to 6 m spreading vine; staminate corolla white, stamen yellow with greenish casing; pistillate corolla white, stigmas greenish; slight fragrance Obata, J.K. 86131 Oahu BISH 1986-03-23
8 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Native dry forest of Metrosideros polymorpha, Pouteria sp., Morinda trimera, Cryptocarya mannii, Tetraplasandra. Preserved_Specimen Enshrouding vine in two localized patches. Flower white. Gagné, W.C. 682 Oahu BISH 1973-11-04
9 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Secondary invasive forest w/ relic Acacia-Metrosideros montane mesic forest w/ Kadua affinis, Nestegis sandwicensis, Coprosma waimeae, Pancium nephelophilum, Asplenium macraei, Athyrium microphyllum, Doodia kunthiana, Dryopteris glabra, Microlepia strigosa, Chrysodracon aurea Preserved_Specimen Vine, 10+ m scandent roadside trees, ca. 10 plants in general area, w/ flower and fruit. Wood, K.R. 18325 Kauai BISH 2019-11-12
10 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
11 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mixed Mesic Forest with Planchonella sandwicensis, Toona ciliata, Gynochthodes trimera, Psidium cattleianum, Coffea arabica. Preserved_Specimen Vine, Lvs thin and papery when dried; white monecious. Flowers not scented, female flowers below leaves, male flowers above. Fruits dried star-shaped single seeded urticles. Ching-Harbin, S. 2 Oahu BISH 2019-06-05
12 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
13 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
14 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
15 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Degraded Diverse Mesic Forest Dodonea, Diospyros sandwicensis, Sideroxylon, Pouteria, Metrosideros, Psychotria, Kadua, Bobea, Myrisne, Nestegis, Rauvolfia, Pleomele, understory of Doryopteris decora and weeds Preserved_Specimen Vine along dry steambank on Lantana. Tip of leaf hanging and twisted. Male flowers on upright stalk at leaf base Tangalin, N. 3097 Kauai BISH 2012-04-09
16 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Aleurites forest Preserved_Specimen vine Grant, M.L. 7431 Oahu BISH 1934-09-30
17 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In mesic forest on N-facing slopes of ridge. Preserved_Specimen Vine ca. 15' long w/white flrs. Herbst, D.R. 5964 Oahu BISH 1977-04-03
18 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
19 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
20 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vine on Leucana glauca. Preserved_Specimen Ozaki, E.T. 1429 Oahu BISH 1955-02-08
21 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Acacia koa - Metrosideros mesic forest with Dodonaea viscosa, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Dianella sandwicensis, Chrysodracon aurea, Dubautia laevigata, Kadua knudsenii, Cibotium, Claeocarpus bifidus, Cheirodendron, Syzygium sandwicense, Wiks Preserved_Specimen Vine with flowers and fruit, mostly immature fruit, Perlman, S. 24018 Kauai BISH 2014-07-03
22 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Scrambling over bushes. Preserved_Specimen Vine, herbaceous. MacDaniels, L.H. 856 Kauai BISH 1927-02-22
23 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Native dry forest of Metrosideros polymorpha, Pouteria sp., Morinda trimera, Cryptocarya mannii, Tetraplasandra. Preserved_Specimen Enshrouding vine in two localized patches. Flower white. Gagné, W.C. 682 Oahu BISH 1973-11-04
24 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Localized occurence consisting of an undetermined number of vines climbing up into the canopy of a somewhat open mixed mesic forest on a gentle N-facing slope. Assoc. veg.: Claoxylon, Osmanthus, Planchonella, Strongylodon, Urera, Alectryon, Psidium guajava. Preserved_Specimen Lau, J. 2155 Oahu BISH 1986-02-17
25 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Climbing over dense jungle in sunny rainy region. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 20890 Oahu BISH 1950-06-11
26 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
27 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Native dry forest of Metrosideros polymorpha, Pouteria sp., Morinda trimera, Cryptocarya mannii, Tetraplasandra. Preserved_Specimen Enshrouding vine in two localized patches. Flower white. Gagné, W.C. 682 Oahu BISH 1973-11-04
28 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rather dry grassy ridge w/Dodonaea, Bidens & Diospyros. Preserved_Specimen Ozaki, E.T. 1515 Oahu BISH 1956-04-15
29 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On Metrosideros lowland mesic forest w/Myrsine lessertiana, Melicope, Diospyros, Freycinetia, Scaevola gaudichaudii, Dicranopteris, Labordia, Pipturus, Zanthoxylum kauense, Psidium. Preserved_Specimen Few vines w/flowers & fruit. Perlman, S. 7230 Oahu BISH 1988-01-15
30 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
31 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry forest; with Sapindus, Pleomele, Osmanthus, Ochrosia, Drypetes Preserved_Specimen branched liane climbing to top of 35' tree; cut stem exuded milky sap; base in withered leaves Hatheway, W.H. 171 Oahu BISH 1950-08-12
32 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Climbing vine. Wilbur, R.L. 665 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
33 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mixed Mesic Forest with Planchonella sandwicensis, Toona ciliata, Gynochthodes trimera, Psidium cattleianum, Coffea arabica. Preserved_Specimen Vine, Lvs thin and papery when dried; white monecious. Flowers not scented, female flowers below leaves, male flowers above. Fruits dried star-shaped single seeded urticles. Ching-Harbin, S. 1 Oahu BISH 2019-06-05
34 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest, W aspect, gulch; Acacia koa, Metrosideros, Pisonia sandwicensis, Freycinetia, Broussaisia, Doodia kunthiana, Urera glabra, Labordia kaalae, Ilex, Psychotria hathewayi, Perrottetia, Dubautia plantaginea, Peperomia, Melicope peduncularis, Myrsine lessertiana, Clidemia hirta, Psidium cattleianum, Toona, Budleja, Hibiscus arnottianus, Coprosma foliosa Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 8558 Oahu BISH 2000-06-25
35 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Large vines on side of gully climbing over trees, etc. Forbes, C.N. 776 Kauai BISH 1917-07-07
36 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Creeping on ground. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 11095 Oahu BISH 1931-05-17
37 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Clambering vine. Webster, G.L. 1515 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
38 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Deep forest. Preserved_Specimen Meebold, A. 8514 Oahu BISH 1930-03-01
39 Sicyos lanceoloideus Waimea Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 604 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
40 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Localized occurence consisting of an undetermined number of vines climbing up into the canopy of a somewhat open mixed mesic forest on a gentle N-facing slope. Assoc. veg.: Claoxylon, Osmanthus, Planchonella, Strongylodon, Urera, Alectryon, Psidium guajava. Preserved_Specimen Lau, J. 2155 Oahu BISH 1986-02-17
41 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kauai BISH 1926-06-25
42 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 776 Kauai BISH 1917-07-07
43 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 776 Kauai BISH 1917-07-07
44 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 776 Kauai BISH 1917-07-07
45 Sicyos lanceoloideus Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower Metrosideros forest on steep ridge. Preserved_Specimen Stems 10 m long, sprawling; lvs glabrous, dark green; male fl white; fr 15-17 mm long, ovoid, trigonous. St.John, H. 23365 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
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