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Melicope nealae

(B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone (1989)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Melicope

alani, alani kuahiwi

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Sprawling shrubs.

Stems: New growth densely tomentose, branches becoming glabrate, stems up to a few m long.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades elliptic to obovate, 3–18 cm long, 1.3–9 cm wide. Apex rounded, usually emarginate. Base cuneate. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces moderately pilose; blades coriaceous. Margins entire. Primary lateral veins usually 12–20 pairs, spreading, connected by an arched vein 2–6 mm from margin, venation pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern. Petioles 10–30 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1–5 in minutely puberulent, axillary cymes, peduncles 1–5 mm long, pedicels 3–4 mm long. Calyx unknown. Corolla unknown. Stamens 8. Ovary superior, 4-celled and 4-lobed, carpels connate, only slightly distinct at apex to almost entirely distinct; ovules 2 per cell, hemitropous, 1 ascending; style 1, terminating in 4 short stigmatic branches.

Fruit: Capsules green; 20–25 mm wide; carpels connate ca. ½ their length; 10–12 mm long; exocarp minutely puberulent; endocarp glabrous. the carpels dehiscing along the upper suture. Seeds 2 per carpel; ca.4 mm long (immature). glossy black when ripe; crustaceous; ovoid; sometimes angled from compression; embryo straight in fleshy endosperm; radicle short; cotyledons compressed; ovate; putamen brown; warty.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Mesic forest.

Elevation Range: ca. 1067 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Taxon 38: 121 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1196 (K [as Pelea nealae]); Hartley & Stone 1989:121 (COMBNOV:Syn. P. nealae); Wood 2012:99 (EXTINCT?)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Dicranopteris montane wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 18235 Kauai PTBG 7/2/2019
2 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Dicranopteris montane wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 18351 Kauai PTBG 12/18/2019
3 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Dicranopteris montane wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 18280 Kauai PTBG 8/14/2019
4 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Stone, B. C.; Scheuer, P.; Werny, F. 3359 Kauai US 4/12/1960
5 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN b. c. stone, p. scheuer & f. werny 3359 Kauai US 4/12/1960
6 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land with Koa, Straussia, Bobea, Canthium, Fagara, etc. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN stone, b.c. scheuer, p.j.; werny, f. collector number: 3359 Kauai BISH 4/12/1960
7 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land with Koa, Straussia, Bobea, Canthium, Fagara, etc. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN stone, b.c. scheuer, p.j.; werny, f. collector number: 3359 Kauai BISH 4/12/1960
8 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land with koa, Straussia, Bobea, Canthium, Fagara, etc. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Stone, B.C. 3359 Kauai BISH 4/12/1960
9 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Aleurites, Cordyline, Pisonia, Setaria palmifolia PRESERVED_SPECIMEN stone, b.c. scheuer, p.j.; werny, f. collector number: 3359 Oahu BISH 4/12/1960
10 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land with Koa, Straussia, Bobea, Canthium, Fagara, etc. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Stone, B.C. 3359 Kauai BISH 4/12/1960
11 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 341.k Hawaii BISH 9/1/1909
12 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land with koa, Straussia, Bobea, Canthium, Fagara, etc. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN stone, b.c. scheuer, p.j.; werny, f. collector number: 3359 Kauai BISH 4/12/1960
13 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Level forested land with Koa, Straussia, Bobea, Canthium, Fagara, etc. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Stone, B.C. 3359 Kauai BISH 4/12/1960
14 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 341.K Kauai BISH 9/1/1909
15 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 341.K Kauai BISH 9/1/1909
16 Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 341.k Kauai BISH 9/1/1909
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