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Lysimachia daphnoides

(A.Gray) Hillebr. (1888)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Ericales Family: Primulaceae Genus: Lysimachia

kolekole lehua, kolokolo kuahiwi, kolokolo lehua, lehua makanoe

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small shrubs forming clumps 2–5 dm tall.

Stems: Bark reddish brown to dark brown, stems several, ascending to erect, young ones densely viscid–hirtellous, eventually glabrate.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, closely spaced, imbricate, coriaceous, sessile. Blades oblong–oblanceolate to oblanceolate, 20–53 mm long, 6–14(–21) mm wide. Apex acuminate. Base attenuate. Surfaces rusty viscid–hirtellous near margins, along midrib, and sometimes near base. Margins papillose and slightly revolute. Veins obscure. Short-petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic, solitary in the leaf axils, 6–7-merous, pedicels 15–35 mm long, scarcely elongating or elongating up to 110 mm long in fruit, densely rusty viscid–hirtellous, bracteate, bracteoles absent. Calyx of 5 sepals; Calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 7–9 mm long, sparsely viscid–hirtellous, margins ciliate. Corolla dark purple or dark burgundy, campanulate, 15–20 mm long, the lobes obovate, imbricate. Stamens as many as and opposite the corolla lobes; filaments connate in lower ⅓, adnate to corolla tube; anthers dithecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; style 1.

Fruit: Capsules subglobose; regularly dehiscent. Seeds dark brown; irregularly shaped; ca. 2 mm long; seed coat crustaceous.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Vegetation islands in swamp and bog.

Elevation Range: 1,220–1,570 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

PROPAGATION/CULTIVATION

  • The fruit of Lysimachia daphnoides is a roundish capsule that opens to release the seeds when it is mature. The seeds are dark brown and tiny.
  • Lilleeng-Rosenberger obtained 86% germination from seeds of a closely related species, Lysimachia glutinosa. These results were obtained with fresh seed sown on the surface of the potting medium. It took over 5 months for these seeds to germinate. (Lilleeng-Rosenberger 1996; Wagner 1990)
  • Ragone reported that NTBG had very little success growing a related species, Lysimachia lydgatei, from cuttings. Five cuttings were treated with Rootone F and stuck in a well-drained, moist medium; only 1 cutting rooted. NTBG notes that the cuttings are even less likely to root if they are not planted immediately after collection. (Ragone 1993) [Data from Herring, E. C., & Criley, R. A. (2003). The Hawaiian Native Plant Propagation Web Site: Developing a Webbased Information Resource. HortTechnology, 13(3), 545-548. https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hawnprop/]

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 285 (1888)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1080 (K); Marr & Bohm 1997:265 ([as L. daphnoides] KEY, DESCR) 272 ([as L. kahiliensis] KEY, DESCR); Herbst & Wagner 1999:30 (Syn. L. kahiliensis = L. daphnoides)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Heller, A.A. 2736 Kauai BISH 1895-10-19
2 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Heller, A.A. 2736 Kauai BISH 1895-10-19
3 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 271 Kauai BISH 1909-08-01
4 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Knudsen Kauai BISH
5 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a tree fern and native shrub understory. Preserved_Specimen 30-40 cm tall. Higashino, P.K. 9638 Kauai BISH 1981-05-12
6 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Selling, O. 2905 Kauai BISH 1938-08-13
7 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Hidden in tufts of sedge & grass. Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 888 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
8 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in open bog. Preserved_Specimen Short, erect plant with deep purple flowers. Herbst, D.R. 2394 Kauai BISH 1972-04-25
9 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Common in tussocks of ohia, sedges. Preserved_Specimen Short, erect, unbranched plant ca. 18 inches tall. Flowes deep purple (burgandy). Herbst, D.R. 2433 Kauai BISH 1972-05-23
10 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet open bog. Preserved_Specimen Unbranched rosette subshrub, 0.2 m. Lammers, T.G. 5383 Kauai BISH 1983-08-30
11 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Common in hummocks. Preserved_Specimen Short, erect plant; flws deep burgundy. Herbst, D.R. 2394 Kauai BISH 1972-04-25
12 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet bog w/scattered native shrubs. Preserved_Specimen 30 cm tall, barely branched. Warshauer, F.R. 3354 Kauai BISH 1981-05-05
13 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Distributed contagiously near the fallen telephone pole. Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 92 Kauai BISH 1983-01-12
14 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In all bogs; in higher, drier parts in moss or bracken clumps. Preserved_Specimen Erect herb up tp 40 cm; stems dark purple in younger parts, light olive-green in lower parts; lvs light green above, olive-green below; mid-rib pink-purple in lower parts; pedicels brownish; calyx dull yellow. van Royen, P. 11701 Kauai BISH 1977-09-01
15 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rare in bogs, growing on low mounds. Preserved_Specimen Flws rose pink, calyx sticky. Kores, P.J. 133 Kauai BISH 1979-09-02
16 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros - Rhynchospora mixed montane bog w/ Metrosideros polymorpha var. glaberrima, M. p. var. pumila, Rhynchospora rugosa ssp. Lavarum, Cheirodendron trigynum, Carex montis-eeka, Wikstroemia oahuensis var. palustris, Viola kavaiensis, Stypheli Preserved_Specimen Shrubs up to 40 cm tall, moderately branched with old capsules, ca. 30 clumps in general area scattered within islands of Metrosideros Wood, K.R. 16124 Kauai BISH 2014-11-06
17 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing amidst patches of dwarfed Metrosideros--in third bog. Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 13 Kauai BISH 1982-09-25
18 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sticking out of patches of dwarfed Metrosideros in open bog area. Preserved_Specimen Erect, unbranched stems. Herbst, D.R. 2175 Kauai BISH 1971-10-03
19 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Rhynchospora bogs. W/Racomitrium moss, Oreobolus tussocks, Cheirodendron, Broussaisia, Cubautia paleata, Myrsine, Leptochphylla, Gahnia, Vaccinium, Lagenifera, Viola kauaiensis, Coprosma elliptica, Labordia, Smilax, N Preserved_Specimen small shrubs ca. 25-35 cm tall, stems brown-red, leaves medium green or with gray-white scurf, or tinged purple, ca. 10 clumps with several hundred plants Wood, K.R. 14329 Kauai BISH 2010-10-04
20 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On hummocks in 3rd bog, open. Preserved_Specimen Trailing half-shrub to ca. 30 cm tall; flws deep purple, ca. half of them double. Fay, J.J. 322 Kauai BISH 1975-04-08
21 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Hidden in tufts of sedge & grass. Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 888 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
22 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In open bog. Preserved_Specimen Erect. Petals deep magenta. St.John, H. 23056 Kauai BISH 1947-12-25
23 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Platanthera bog in Metrosideros-Oreobolus bog; Styphelia, Lysimachia daphnoides, Coprosma elliptica, Gahnia, Cheirodendron, Cibotium, Hedyotis terminalis, Viola kauaiensis, Myrsine petiolata, Vaccinium, Rhynchospora, Carex montis-eeka, Dubautia paleata Preserved_Specimen 1 m subshrub; fruit Perlman, S. 18630 Kauai BISH 2003-10-10
24 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Open bog. Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 153 Kauai BISH 1969-07-30
25 Lysimachia daphnoides Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Plants 1-2 ft ht with fruit, no flower Perlman, S. 22993 Kauai BISH 2012-09-18
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