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Sanicula mariversa

Nagata & S.M.Gon (1987)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Apiaceae Genus: Sanicula

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial, stout, erect herbs 4–7 dm tall from a stout caudex.

Stems: Caulescent, stems solitary, branching above base.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate basal leaves numerous, cauline leaves reduced upward. Basal leaves cordate-ovate to reniform, 13-23 cm wide, palmately 3-lobed or 5-lobed and somewhat peltate, the segments cuneate to obovate, cleft to the middle or beyond and variously lobed. Cauline leaves more deeply lobed. Blades of basal leaves coriaceous. Margins of basal leaves spinulose–serrate, cauline leaves more deeply lobed. Petioles of basal leaves1–3 dm long, abruptly short–sheathing; cauline leaves subsessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in +/- umbellately arranged terminal clusters of 2–5 pedunculate, capitate umbels plus solitary to clustered umbels in the upper leaf axils, umbels 10–20–flowered, peduncles 0.5–2.5 cm long. Involucre of 8–12 oblong-lanceolate bracts 1–3 mm long. Perfect flowers 1–4, subsessile, staminate flowers 7–14, their pedicels 3–5 mm long. Calyx teeth ovate, ca. 1 mm long, acute, evidently connate. Corolla of 5 petals; petals yellow. Stamens 5, inserted on an epigynous disk. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 1 per cells, anatropous; styles 2, usually swollen at base into a stylopodium. Styles twice as long as calyx teeth, recurved.

Fruit: Fruit ovoid; 4–6 mm long; 3–4 mm wide; mericarps slightly compressed dorsally in transection; covered with long; stout; uncinate; bulbous prickles; vittae obscure. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous.

Ploidy:

Habitat: On xeric; well–drained slopes; with Dodonaea; Schinus; shrubby Metrosideros; and grasses.

Elevation Range: ca. 750 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada
  • Known from 2 small colonies of about 100 individuals total.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Syst. Bot. 12: 406 (1987)

Other References

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Wagner et al. 1990:209 (O)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information North slope of ridgetop at base of rock outcrop. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takahama, T. s.n. Oahu BISH 1/2/1994
2 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Nagata, K. M.; Hall, J. 3171 Oahu US 2/24/1985
3 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 12147 Oahu PTBG 7/24/1991
4 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P. 5664 Oahu US 4/19/1987
5 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood, s. p. perlman & j. obata 302 Oahu US 4/16/1990
6 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 5664 Oahu US 4/19/1987
7 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. nagata & j. hall 3171 Oahu US 2/24/1985
8 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 5664 Kauai US 4/19/1987
9 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P.; Obata, J. 302 Oahu US 4/16/1990
10 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On rock outcrop with `ohi`a, Eragrostis, Wikstroemia, Schinus PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 5664 Oahu BISH 4/19/1987
11 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 5660 Oahu US 4/19/1987
12 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information With `ohi`a, Eragrostis, Gnaphalium, Eupatorium, Melinis and Stachytarpheta. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 5660 Oahu BISH 4/19/1987
13 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 5664 Hawaii BISH 4/19/1987
14 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing mong grasses, scrubby Metrosideros, Stachytarpheta, Bidens. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN nagata, k.m. hall, j. collector number: 3171 Oahu BISH 2/24/1985
15 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 5660 Oahu BISH 4/19/1987
16 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information North slope of ridgetop at base of rock outcrop. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Takahama, T. Collector Number: s.n. Oahu BISH 1/2/1994
17 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information North slope of ridgetop at base of rock outcrop. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN takahama, t. collector number: s.n. Oahu BISH 1/2/1994
18 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN S. P. Perlman 5660 F 4/19/1987
19 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mixed native coastal dry cliffs. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 1831 Oahu PTBG 4/23/1992
20 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 17132 Oahu PTBG 5/23/2000
21 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland dry mixed community. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 302 Oahu PTBG 4/16/1990
22 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN S. P. Perlman 5664 F 4/19/1987
23 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 5660 Oahu PTBG 4/19/1987
24 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 5664 Oahu PTBG 4/19/1987
25 Sanicula mariversa Nagata & S.M.Gon Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Kenneth M. Nagata 3171 Oahu PTBG 2/24/1985
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