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Korthalsella complanata

(Tiegh.) Engl. (1897)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Santalopsida Order: Santalales Family: Santalaceae Genus: Korthalsella

hulumoa, kaumahana

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Brittle, hemiparasitic, producing haustoria that penetrate the host.

Stems: Stems 1–3(–5) dm long, strongly jointed, usually several times branched, secondary and tertiary branches conspicuously narrower than main stem, arising distichously or obliquely, the main stem cylindrical for 1(2) internodes, abruptly flattened from the third node onward, second internode usually cylindrical, sometimes flattened, 15–25 mm long, (3–)4–8(–17) mm wide, the internodes rectangular or rarely obovate to narrowly obovate, 10–45 mm long, 6–25 mm wide, usually 1–5–nerved, rarely more.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple Opposite and distichous. strongly reduced Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers confined to the axils, surrounded by a patch of usually dark hairs, the flower groups becoming many–flowered through later development of collateral and serial adventitious buds, sometimes forming a continuous band around the stem, all clusters with staminate and pistillate flowers intermingled. Flowers unisexual, minute, actinomorphic, each flower subtended by a small bract. Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla of pistillate flowers 3-lobed, the lobes short, triangular, valvate. Staminate flowers globose in bud, later with 3 triangular segments, Stamens connate into a globose synandrium, 6 celled; anthers opening by slits toward the center of the synandrium. Pollen ultimately pouring out from a single central, apical pore. Ovary inferior (pistillate flowers), clavate or pear–shaped in bud, 3–4-carpellate, 1-celled; style terminal; stigma nipple–shaped, the embryo sacs first growing downward, then curving upward in the ovary wall, eventually U–shaped.

Fruit: Berries with persistent corolla; fleshy; glossy. Seeds 1 per fruit; flattened in the upper portion; seed coat absent; endosperm starchy; chlorophyllose.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Most common in wet and mesic forest.

Elevation Range: (100–)600–1,350(–2,140) m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
O'ahu Endemic
Molokai Endemic
Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic
Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 138 (1897)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1338 (K, O, Mo, L, M, H); Molvray 1997:270 (Syn. K. complanata = K. taenioides f. taenioides, status change from end to ind); Herbst & Wagner 1999:32 (recommend against adopting Molvray 1997 pending further evaluation); Degener 35821 BISH (L†, 1965)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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