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Gardenia remyi

H.Mann (1867)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Gentianales Family: Rubiaceae Genus: Gardenia

nā‘ū [nau], nānū [nanu]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 3–13 m tall.

Stems: Branches somewhat quadrangular, puberulent and viscid.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite, few, clustered toward the tips of the branches. Blades elliptic to broadly elliptic, elliptic–obovate, or broadly obovate, (6–)9–24(–26) cm long, (4.5–)5–10 cm wide. Apex short–acuminate. Base attenuate to narrowly truncate or subcordate. Upper surfaces glabrous and viscid, especially when young; lower surfaces dull, puberulent, at least along veins; blades, firm–chartaceous; domatia usually present in the axils of the lateral veins. Margins entire. Lateral veins 9–15 pairs, these prominent. Petioles 0.3– 0.8 cm long. Stipules conspicuous, connate into a collar 4–8 mm long, puberulent and viscid.

Flowers: Flowers solitary, terminal, soon appearing axillary by development of one of the vegetatifve buds lateral to the flower, pedicels 3– 13 mm long, puberulent and viscid; hypanthium narrowly funnelform, 6–12 mm long, sharply 4–6–angled or 4–6–winged, formed by lower part of calyx and enclosed ovary, apically lined with a shallow nectary disk. Flowers insect-pollinated, bisexual (perfect) or rarely unisexual, often heterostylous, fragrant. Calyx narrowly funnelform, 4–5 mm long, puberulent and viscid, apically produced into 4–6 terminal spurs, these coriaceous, asymmetrically obovate, 24–38 mm long, 8–19 mm wide, puberulent. Corolla conspicuous, white, firm, subcoriaceous, salverform, 6–8-lobed, the tube 20–24 mm long (when dry), the lobes 16–18 mm long (when dry); nectary disk usually present. Stamens included, as many as and alternate with the corolla lobes; filaments short, usually inserted on the corolla tube or throat; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, dorsifixed above middle, linear-oblong, 13–15 mm long. Ovary inferior, occasionally partly so, or very rarely superior, 1-celled or falsely 2-celled; ovules numerous, placentation parietal; style 1, terminal, slender; stigmas connate or 2-lobed, dry or occasionally wet.

Fruit: Fruit orange; subglobose to broadly ellipsoid; 1–2.8 cm in diameter; prominently costate; terminated by somewhat persistent calyx spurs; pericarp hard; exocarp thin; mesocarp fibrous-coriaceous; endocarp bony; pulp apparently yellow. Seeds numerous; irregularly obovate; 1.8-2.1 mm long; reticulate; horizontally embedded in pulp; compressed; with well-developed oily endosperm; or endosperm occasionally scanty or absent.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occasional in mesic to sometimes wet forest.

Elevation Range: 60–760 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
Molokai Endemic
Maui Endemic
Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 171 (1867)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1133 (K, Mo, M, H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. Kauai BISH 1977-09-08
2 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 318 Molokai BISH 1910-05-01
3 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 2667 Maui BISH 1920-07-02
4 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 565 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
5 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 2520 Maui BISH 1920-06-14
6 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 565 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
7 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 516 Molokai BISH 1912-09-01
8 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 516 Molokai BISH 1912-09-01
9 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 500 Maui BISH 1917-09-25
10 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1705 Maui BISH 1919-11-22
11 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Judd, A.F. 1326 BISH 1925-02-01
12 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Tree abundant ht 9 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 818 Kauai BISH 1927-02-21
13 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In steep leeward drainage. Assoc. vegetation: Metrosideros polymorpha, Melicope clusiifolia, Ilex anomala, Broussaisia arguta, Coprosma pubens, Cheirodendron trigynum, Cibotium menziesii, Cibotium glaucum, Sadleria cyatheoides, Athyrium microphyllum, Rubus rosifolius, Tibouchina herbacea. Preserved_Specimen 7 m tree. Meidell, J.S. 224 Maui BISH 1997-10-02
14 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris lowland wet forest with Syzygium, Tetraplasandra, Cyanea, Freycinetia, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Antidesma, Cheirodendron, Alyxia, Boehmeria, Clidemia, Dubautia, Pisonia, Athyrium. Preserved_Specimen 1 tree, 12 ft ht, with fruit. Perlman, S. 12427 Kauai BISH 1991-12-12
15 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Acacia, Perrottetia, etc. Preserved_Specimen Tree 13 m x 20 cm, erect, branching upward; fls. white, 8 petaled, fragrant, enclosed in a calyx of 4 ovate half twisted lobes. Stone, B.C. 1480 Kauai BISH 1956-12-26
16 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist lowland forest, steep slope. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 10 ft tall; bud sticky. St.John, H. 13928 Kauai BISH 1934-01-01
17 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In shrubby forest. In aa lava. Preserved_Specimen 25 ft twiggy, leafy tree. Degener, O. 21792 Hawaii BISH 1952-02-05
18 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 659 Kauai BISH 1916-10-22
19 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 516 Molokai BISH 1912-09-01
20 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 188 Kauai BISH 1909-08-01
21 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. BISH
22 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen BISH
23 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lower forest of Acacia, guava, Perrottetia, Aleurites Preserved_Specimen Tree 13 m x 20 cm. Lvs. dark shiny green above, paler below, corolla white not bruising easily, with strong delightful perfume like Gardenia & lemon. St.John, H. 25994 Kauai BISH 1956-12-26
24 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On slope adjacent to motorcycle trail in Lowland Wet Forest. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 30510 Maui BISH 2005-03-23
25 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In shrubby forest; aa lava Preserved_Specimen 25ft twiggy, leafy tree Degener, O. 21792 Hawaii BISH 1952-02-05
26 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a native shrub-exotic grass and shrub u/s. Preserved_Specimen Tree; 6cm Dbh; 4m tall. Stemmermann, R.L. 3960 Molokai BISH 1979-07-21
27 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros-Dicranopteris lowland wet forest with Psychotia, Myrsine, Hedyotis, Antidesma, Canthium, Syzygium, Perrottetia, Broussaisia, Cyrtandra, Styphelia. Preserved_Specimen One large tree, 20 ft ht with flowers and immature fruit. Perlman, S. 6254 Molokai BISH 1987-08-02
28 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on edge of ridge above LZ,. Metrosideros lowand wet forest bordered by steep slopes of Dicranopteris and Diplopterygium matting ferns 90% closed canopy with Antidesma platyphyllum var. hillebrandii, Broussaisia arguta, Syzygium sandwicensis, Cheirodendron forbesii, C. fauriei, Ilex anomalal, Dubautia knudsenii, Psychotria mariniana, Bobea brevipes, Kadu Preserved_Specimen Tree, 7-8 meters tall, well branched, leaves light green, young leaves viscid, in flower (ca. 50 larvae inside flower, ca. 1.5 mm. long), pollen observed, single tree in Lumahai Wood, K.R. 18468 Kauai BISH 2020-07-01
29 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In native jungle. Preserved_Specimen One of 2 trees, ca. 25 ft high. Cross, J.F. Hawaii BISH 1953-09-02
30 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Diospyros sandwicensis mesic forest, with Diospyros hillebrandii, Syzygium sandwicensis, Antidesma platyphylla, Psychotria mariniana, Myrsine lanaiensis, Bobea elatior, Rauvolfia sandwicensis, Pteralyxia kauaiensis, Santalum freycinetianum Preserved_Specimen tree, 15 meters tall, thickly branched, 60 cm. diameter at base, in flower and fruit, near gluch bottom, 3 mature trees, immature seed Wood, K.R. 9965 Kauai BISH 2002-09-10
31 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With guava. Preserved_Specimen Woolford, H.A. Kauai BISH 1956-01-01
32 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details At back of valley in rich forest. Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 3052 Kauai BISH 1989-06-13
33 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest in gulch. Preserved_Specimen Tree 30 ft x 7 in. Christensen, C. 117 Kauai BISH 1977-01-21
34 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Tree ht 8 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 701 Kauai BISH 1927-02-14
35 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details at bottom of small gully, western Kahakuloa drainage basin. Vegetion: Metrosideros polymorpha var. glaberrima, Dicranopteris linearis, Xylosma hawaiiense, Freycinetia arborea, Diplopterigium pinnatum, Antidesma platyphyllum, Psidium cattleianum, Clidemia hirta, Andropogon virginicus, Nephrolepis multiflora. Preserved_Specimen Single 3m tall shrub Oppenheimer, H.L. 90305 Maui BISH 2003-09-10
36 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Metrosideros, Straussia, and Cibotium menziesii. Preserved_Specimen Tree 10 m x 2 dm. St.John, H. 22308 Hawaii BISH 1947-12-23
37 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing with ohia, kopiko, kolea, pilo, etc. Preserved_Specimen Tree 15 ft x 6 in. Bryan, L.W. Hawaii BISH 1946-11-19
38 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet koa- ohia forest with other native trees and an exotic and native shrub understory. Preserved_Specimen 20cm Bd; 14m tall. Warshauer, F.R. 2872 Maui BISH 1980-07-22
39 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Forested slope. Young seedling or sapling trees in mixed forest. Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3738 Kauai BISH 1961-08-11
40 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet koa- ohia forest with other native trees and a treefern, native shrub understory. Preserved_Specimen 8m tall, fallen w/several other trunks. Warshauer, F.R. 1354 Hawaii BISH 1977-08-23
41 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In steep leeward drainage. Assoc. vegetation: Metrosideros polymorpha, Melicope clusiifolia, Ilex anomala, Broussaisia arguta, Coprosma pubens, Cheirodendron trigynum, Cibotium menziesii, Cibotium glaucum, Sadleria cyatheoides, Athyrium microphyllum, Rubus rosifolius, Tibouchina herbacea. Preserved_Specimen 7 m tree. Meidell, J.S. 224 Maui BISH 1997-10-02
42 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rainforest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 3247 Molokai BISH 1928-06-28
43 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Metrosideros polymorpha montane wet forest with Athyrium, Cyrtandra, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Clermontia, Cyanea, Eurya, Hedyotis, Ilex, Meliocpe, Labordia, Stenogyne, Wikstroemia, many ferns. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 10408 Molokai BISH 1989-03-28
44 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Diverse mesic forest with Ohia, Lama, Pteralyxia, Pritchardia, Psychotria, Pleomele, Lantana Preserved_Specimen 2 trees, large 20-25 ft ht with flowers and immature fruit. Perlman, S. 10383 Kauai BISH 1989-06-13
45 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist woods. Preserved_Specimen Tree 25 ft x 1 ft. St.John, H. 13304 Molokai BISH 1933-07-04
46 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist woods. Preserved_Specimen Tree 8 m x 2 dm; leaves yellowish green. St.John, H. 19860 Molokai BISH 1938-12-28
47 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Almost undisturbed low elevation rain forest. Predominantly Metrosideros, Antidesma, Cibotium, and Dicranopteris. On uluhe covered slope. Preserved_Specimen Single tree of 30 ft (dbh of 12 in); petals white with yellow tinge on margin, tube yellow-green; very fragrant. Flynn, T.W. 2171 Kauai BISH 1987-04-24
48 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details one near crown of ridge, two others on leeward slope below rim. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Dicranopteris, Psychotria, Syzygium, Ilex, Broussaisia, Antidesma, Nephrolepis, Pteridium, Tibouchina, Machaerina, Vaccinium, Clidemia, Leptecophylla, Freycinetia, Psilotum, Sadleria, Lycopodiella, Rubus, Korthalsella, Scaevola, Adenophorus. Preserved_Specimen Three trees 5-6m tall observed in this location. Oppenheimer, H.L. 121406 Molokai BISH 2014-12-05
49 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen A large tree, branched from the base. Rock, J.F.C. 7043 Molokai BISH 1910-04-16
50 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest. Preserved_Specimen Tree ht 18 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 641 Kauai BISH 1927-02-11
51 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Metrosideros, Straussia, and Cibotium menziesii. Preserved_Specimen Tree 10 m x 2 dm. St.John, H. 22308 Hawaii BISH 1947-12-23
52 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In shrubby forest. In aa lava. Preserved_Specimen 25 ft twiggy, leafy tree. Degener, O. 21792 Hawaii BISH 1952-02-05
53 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested slopes below and east of Pihea. Diospyros mixed mesic forest. W/ canopy of Pouteria sandwicensis, Syzygium sandwicensis, Metrosideros polymorpha, Antidesma platyphylla, Psychotria mariniana, Myrsine lanaiensis, Bobea elatior, Rauvolfia sandwicensis, Peeralyxia k Preserved_Specimen tree, 12 m tall, 1 m dia @ base, multi-trunked above with 4 trunks tan-brown, within grouping of large Aleurites moluccana, Pouteria sandwicensis, Bobea elatior, and Freycinetia arborea, 200 deg south aspect, tree trees in general area Wood, K.R. 10895 Kauai BISH 2004-08-11
54 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a native shrub-exotic grass and shrub u/s. Preserved_Specimen Stemmermann, R.L. 3452 Molokai BISH 1979-07-19
55 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Tree ht 8 m. Has very long petioles. MacDaniels, L.H. 823 Kauai BISH 1927-02-21
56 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details At back of valley in rich forest. Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 3052 Kauai BISH 1989-07-13
57 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Native cliffs and ridges with level stands of diverse mesic and Metrosideros-Dicranopteris forests. Associated plants; Gardenia, Santalum, Melicope, Pouteria, Pteralyxia, Diospyros, Charpentiera, Zanthoxylum, Antidesma, Pleomele, Elaeocarpus, Myrsine, Freycinetia, Wikstroemia, Cryptocarya, Bobea, Pritchardia, Psychotria. Preserved_Specimen 11 m tall tree; 50 cm diameter at base; flowers white, very fragrant. Wood, K.R. 1963 Kauai BISH 1992-07-10
58 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen A large tree, branched from the base. In fruit only. Rock, J.F.C. 7043 Molokai BISH 1910-04-16
59 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Saw trees 30-40 ft high. Forbes, C.N. 188 Kauai BISH 1909-08-01
60 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 291 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
61 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Small tree ht 5 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 727 Kauai BISH 1927-02-16
62 Gardenia remyi Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Tree ht 5 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 677 Kauai BISH 1927-02-13
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