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Canavalia molokaiensis

O.Deg., I.Deg. & J.D.Sauer (1962)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Canavalia

‘āwikiwiki [awikiwiki], puakauhi

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial climbers, branches twining.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate. Leaflets narrowly to broadly lanceolate or sometimes ovate, 3.5–8(–10) cm long, 1.3–5.4 (–6.5) cm wide. Apex longacuminate to short-caudate. Base cuneate to subtruncate. Surfaces sparsely appressed pubescent, sometimes slightly more so on lower surface, becoming glabrate; leaflets chartaceous. Leaflet margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules present small, caducous. Leaflet stipels minute.

Flowers: Flowers usually 4–15 in axillary pseudoracemes 3–9 cm long. Flowers papilionaceous; bracteoles present, caducous. Calyx 20–28 mm long, sparsely appressed pubescent, upper edge smoothly and strongly concave, apex weakly apiculate, upper lip 10–15 mm long, the 2 lobes connate except in distal 2–3.5 mm, lowest lobe narrowly ovate to ovate, 4–6 mm long. Calyx bilabiate, 5-lobed, the upper lip large and with 2 lobes connate along the upper margin, the lower lip trifid. Corolla apparently rose purple, standard with a white spot and streaks at base, 39–45 mm long, wing petals 36–43 mm long, keel petals 38–47 mm long. Stamens 10; upper stamen distinct at base, loosely adhering to the other 9 up to middle, the other 9 connate into a tube. Ovary superior, stipitate; ovules 5–20; style incurved, glabrous; stigma small, terminal.

Fruit: Pods compressed; 12–16 cm long; 2.3–3.5 cm wide; sparsely appressed pubescent; each valve with an inconspicuous sutural ridge and an additional longitudinal ridge 0.5–2 mm below the upper suture. Seeds dark reddish brown; oblong–elliptic; strongly compressed; 17–22 mm long; 12– 14 mm wide; the hilum 12–15 mm long. Seeds transversely arranged; ellipsoid; hilum elongated; oblong; with a small; papery; persistent rim–aril.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Apparently uncommon in open; dry sites; mesic shrubland; and steep slopes of gulches.

Elevation Range: 850–930 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • 850-930 m
  • Description digitized by McKenna Bonn-Savage
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • uncommon

Bibliography

Name Published In: O.Degener, Fl. Hawaiiensis 1690: s.p. (1962)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:653 (Mo)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 238 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
2 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 399 Molokai BISH 1912-08-01
3 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 238 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
4 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details near coast Preserved_Specimen Vine with flowers and green legumes Anderson, S.J. 616 Molokai BISH 1983-08-25
5 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vine climbing to 6' on ohia, Wikstroemia, Styphelia, and Dodonaea. Preserved_Specimen Vine climbing to 6'. Flowers rose purple, banner with white spot. Anderson, S.J. 552 Molokai BISH 1982-05-29
6 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry exotic grassland with native and exotic shrubs and scattered native trees. Preserved_Specimen Corolla deep magenta, darkening w/age. Warshauer, F.R. 2404 Molokai BISH 1979-07-12
7 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Couple plants observed at this location near ridgetop, below pine trees, plus several seedlings. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Dodonaea, Alyxia, Leptecophylla, Sida, Pteridium, Wikistroemia, Pleomele, Santalum, Dubautia, Osteomeles, Pittosporum, Exocarpus, Asplenium, Luzula. Preserved_Specimen Local and rare vines sprawling over adjacent shrubs; flowers purple; Oppenheimer, H.L. 40816 Molokai BISH 2008-04-23
8 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic forest. Preserved_Specimen Hughes, G.D. 43 Molokai BISH 1992-04-22
9 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vine climbing to 10' on Wikstroemia in Styphelia-Dodonaea scrub with Coprosma and Metrosideros. Covers and area 20 X 50'. Preserved_Specimen Flowers rose-purple with white spot on banner. Anderson, S.J. 558 Molokai BISH 1982-05-30
10 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Near coast. Preserved_Specimen Vine with flowers and green legumes. Anderson, S.J. 616 Molokai BISH 1983-08-25
11 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details near coast Preserved_Specimen Vine with flowers and green legumes Anderson, S.J. 216 Molokai BISH 1993-08-25
12 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros-Styphelia shrubland and forest with Dubautia linearis, Vaccinium, Dodonaea viscosa, Pinus spp., Pteris decompositum, Pittosporum confertiflorum, Scaevola chamissoniana, Melinis minutiflora, Alyxia, and Pleomele auwahiensis. Preserved_Specimen Perennial vine, laves chartaceous, flowers pruple, fruit a pod, sparsely appressed pubescent, about 25 plants in this area. Perlman, S. 16872 Molokai BISH 1999-05-04
13 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Vigna marina on fence Preserved_Specimen trailing vine Wysong, M.L. 864 Molokai BISH 2006-01-26
14 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Climbing on Wikstroemia in Styphelia - Dodonaea scrub with Coprosma and Metrosideros. Preserved_Specimen Vine climbing to 10'. Covers an area 20' x 50'. Flowers rose-purple with white spot on banner. Anderson, S.J. 558 Molokai BISH 1982-05-30
15 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen climbing vine, dark purple flowers Wysong, M.L. 724 Molokai BISH 2005-03-28
16 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vine climbing to 6' on ohia, Wikstroemia, Styphelia, and Dodonaea. Preserved_Specimen Vine climbing to 6'. Flowers rose purple, banner with white spot. Anderson, S.J. 552 Molokai BISH 1982-05-29
17 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry exotic grassland with native and exotic shrubs and scattered native trees.Growing over Dodonaea and Leptecophylla, exposed. Preserved_Specimen Vine Jacobi, J.D. 1430 Molokai BISH 1979-06-25
18 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vegetation: Aleurites, Syzygium spp., Psidium, Diospyros, Rauwolfia, Psydrax, Lantana, Rubus, Clidemia, Nephrolepis, Pluchea, Ageratina, Buddleia, Cocculus. Preserved_Specimen 3 plants observed in this location, only one with flowers/fruit; flowers rose/purple; climbing Cordyline. Oppenheimer, H.L. 80509 Molokai BISH 2005-08-17
19 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details near coast Preserved_Specimen Vine with flowers and green legumes Anderson, S.J. 616 Molokai BISH 1983-08-25
20 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
21 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
22 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Upper edge of dryish slope Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27542 Molokai BISH 1961-06-30
23 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
24 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
25 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
26 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
27 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vine climbing to 6' on ohia, Wikstroemia, Styphelia, and Dodonaea. Preserved_Specimen Vine climbing to 6'. Flowers rose purple, banner with white spot. Anderson, S.J. 552 Molokai BISH 1982-05-29
28 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
29 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Vine over bushes; leaflets form chartaceous, above dark green, below pale. St.John, H. 25256 Molokai BISH 1953-12-25
30 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry exotic grassland with native and exotic shrubs and scattered native trees. Growing with Planchonella, Xanthoxylum, Canavalia, Myoporum, Nestigis, Erythrina, Diospyros, Pleomele, etc. Preserved_Specimen deep magenta to purple corolla; vine to 20 ft, 1 cm diameter at base. Stemmermann, L. 3921 Molokai BISH 1979-06-26
31 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic ohia forest with other native trees and native shrub-exotic grass and shrub understory. Preserved_Specimen Warshauer, F.R. 3014 Molokai BISH 1980-08-07
32 Canavalia molokaiensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 399 Molokai BISH 1912-08-01
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