Plantago princeps var. anomala

Rock (1920)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Plantaginaceae Genus: Plantago

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small shrubs.

Stems: Stems hollow, erect or ascending, ca. 0.2–25 dm long, often branched, young internodes ± woolly with reddish brown hairs.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Tufted near the tips of the stems, thick, coriaceous, blades undifferentiated from petioles. Blades narrowly oblong–lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or sometimes elliptic, 15–30 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate. Base slightly narrowed at base and sessile, or gradually attenuate to a winged petiole. Surfaces glabrous or lower surfaces sometimes appressed pilose. Margins minutely and remotely denticulate or entire. (3–)5–9-veined, the veins only slightly converging toward base. Petioles up to 5 cm long, winged. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in scapes usually several, 10–50 cm long, spikes (7–)11–28 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pilose, flowers densely crowded, sometimes spike somewhat interrupted, each flower spreading at nearly 90° angle to the axis. bracts lanceolate,1.2–3 mm long, glabrous but sometimes woolly at base, bracteoles absent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx of 4 sepals, subequal, distinct, elliptic to elliptic–ovate, 1.8–3.2 mm long, scarious except on midrib, glabrous or ciliate, apex sometimes minutely erose. Corolla salverform, 4-lobed, scarious, persistent in fruit, the tube covering the upper part of the capsule, lobes spreading, 1.5–2 mm long. Stamens 4, alternate with the corolla tubes; filaments adnate to corolla tube; anthers long–exserted, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, with as many cells; ovules apparently (2?)4, placentation axile ; style 1, terminal, slender.

Fruit: Capsules narrowly ovoid–ellipsoid; 3–3.8 mm long; enclosed in the persistent calyx; slightly exserted from calyx; dehiscent at a point ⅔ to base or slightly more. Seeds 3–4; black; ellipsoid to oblong–ellipsoid; 1.5–2.1 mm long; the surface apparently with a mucilaginous membrane; with well–developed; firm; translucent endosperm.

Ploidy: 2n = 12

Habitat: Steep slopes; rock walls; or at bases of waterfalls.

Elevation Range: 800–1,100 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: Amer. J. Bot. 7: 203 (1920)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1055 (K, O)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Dicranopteris covered slopes with patches of diverse mesic forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Tim Flynn 6498 Kauai PTBG 1/14/1999
2 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3391 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012
3 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oahu US
4 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Flynn, T.; Nishek, B. 6498 Kauai US 1/14/1999
5 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN t. flynn & b. nishek 6498 Maui US 1/14/1999
6 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Kauai US
7 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Heller, A. A. 2610 Oahu US 1895-00-00
8 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Davis, F.; Perlman, S. P. 2388 Kauai US 2/17/1993
9 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman & k. marr 12924 Kauai US 7/29/1992
10 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. a. heller 2610 Oahu US 1895-08-22
11 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In native cliff Metrosideros lowland wet shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 12924 Kauai PTBG 7/29/1992
12 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood, f. davis & s. p. perlman 2388 Kauai US 2/17/1993
13 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Montgomery, S.L. s.n. Kauai BISH 7/1/1985
14 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Marr, K. 12924 Kauai US 7/29/1992
15 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Steep slopes with low mixed mesophytic forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN David H. Lorence 5134 Kauai PTBG 3/20/1987
16 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3215 Kauai PTBG 7/12/2012
17 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Steep slopes with low mixed mesophytic forest of Metrosideros, Pelea, Xylosma & Pleomele. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN lorence, d.h. flynn, t.; de lappe, r.; chong, d. collector number: 5134 Kauai BISH 3/20/1987
18 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On deeply shaded mud along sides of small gully along trail. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN obata, j.k. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 3/14/1990
19 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Heller, A.A. 1610 Kauai BISH 1895-00-00
20 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN heller, a.a. collector number: 1610 Kauai BISH 1895-07-23
21 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Obata, J.K. s.n. Oahu BISH 3/14/1990
22 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. a. heller 2610 A 1895-07-23
23 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Steep slopes with low mixed mesophytic forest of Metrosideros, Pelea, Xylosma & Pleomele. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Lorence, D.H. 5134 Kauai BISH 3/20/1987
24 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN a. a. heller 2610 GH 1895-07-23
25 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3389 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012
26 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros shrub cliffs PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 23985 Kauai PTBG 6/12/2014
27 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros shrub cliffs PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 23983 Kauai PTBG 6/10/2014
28 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3387 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012
29 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3385 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012
30 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros Lowland to Montane Mesic forest and Cliffs. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2388 Kauai PTBG 2/17/1993
31 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 5402 Oahu PTBG 3/5/1987
32 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN David H. Lorence 6424 Kauai PTBG 2/15/1990
33 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3388 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012
34 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis montane wet forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 12216 Kauai PTBG 8/29/1991
35 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3390 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012
36 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Tim Flynn 1872 Kauai PTBG 8/20/1986
37 Plantago princeps var. anomala Rock Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Lowland Windward Wet Forest w/ Metrosideros-Dicranopteris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 3386 Kauai PTBG 10/12/2012