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Entada rheedei

Spreng. (1825)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Giant liana.

Stems: Stems with a 3 m girth, sometimes with prickles.

Roots: Taprooted.

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate. Leaves with 1–2 pairs of pinnae, leaflets (1)2–4 pairs per pinna, obliquely elliptic, 2.5–10 cm long, 1–6 cm wide. Apex caudate. Base acute. Surfaces glabrous or pubescent on midrib and margins. Leaflet margins entire. Pinnately veined. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers numerous in racemes. Flowers mimosaceous, bisexual (perfect) or staminate. Calyx red or green, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla of 5 petals, green or cream, base reddish, 2–3.5 mm long. Stamens 10, exserted; 4–6 mm; filaments shortly connate; filaments shortly connate at base and adnate to corolla (only distinct in younger stages); anthers with a caducous apical gland. Ovary superior; ovules numerous.

Fruit: Pods oblong; very large; straight or curved; often very large; compressed; sutures thickened; continuous in a persistent replum; the valves transversely jointed; breaking away from sutures; and splitting into 1–seeded segments; leaving the empty replum. Seeds usually 10–20; brownish red; lenticular; 4–6 cm in diameter; compressed; smooth and glossy; enveloped by the endocarp of the loment.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Montane mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 900–1700 m.

Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Entada rheedei subsp. rheedei

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Considered to be an example of seed gigantism.
  • Description digitized by Rafael Domingo
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Syst. Veg. 2: 325 (1825)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Entada rheedei Lihue, pole line trail Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17293 Kauai BISH 1920-02-01
2 Entada rheedei Kawaihau, Kuilau Trail, below Keahua Arboretum Disturbed lowland windward forests w/ Dicranopteris, Metrosideros, Entada phaseoloides, Sphaeropteris cooperi, weedy grasses, Shpagneticola trilobata, Lantana camara, Cyclosorus interru... Preserved_Specimen Sterile. Covering several acres, looks like it runs almost to powerline road. New leaves red-brown and flaccid. Old leaflets dark green thick, med-green below. Climbing up ohia about 20 ft. N. Tangalin 3563 Kauai BISH 2013-11-22
3 Entada rheedei In valley just west of Kuilau Trail Growing over native forest. Preserved_Specimen Vine. No flowers have been seen, except for one time. Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1977-09-24
4 Entada rheedei Lihue, pole line trail Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17293 Kauai BISH 1920-02-01
5 Entada rheedei Wailua Exp. Station Preserved_Specimen State Forestry staff Kauai BISH 1987-12-04
6 Entada rheedei Kauai Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH
7 Entada rheedei Kauai Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH
8 Entada rheedei Kawaihau, Lihue-Koloa FR, Kuilau trail from Keahua Arboretum, on Moalepe side of picnic pavilion over ground, or climbing on shrubs Preserved_Specimen vine; stem medium green, glossy; leaflets medium green, glossy above; paler, dull below; inflorescence: buds green, tinged bronze; filaments white, stamens greenish; slight, sweet fragrance Hume, L. 370 Kauai BISH 1989-04-07
9 Entada rheedei Koloa, NTBG, Lawai, W side of Lawai Stream, along road at S entrance to Hau tunnel covering large Samanea tree Preserved_Specimen unarmed liana, main stem 25 cm diam., minor stems sinous; leaves with terminal tendril; inflorescence hanging; flowers white turning pale yellow, sweet odor, 12 pm Lorence, D.H. 7994 Kauai BISH 1997-06-02
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