Schiedea salicaria

Hillebr. (1888)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Caryophyllaceae Genus: Schiedea

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Gynodioecious shrubs, 3–8 (–18) dm tall.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes, terete (cylindrical), 4–angled or –ridged, erect or strongly ascending, with few short lateral branches in the distal part of the stem, glabrous, internodes 0.5–5 cm long, green to greenish purple.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, sometimes the lower ones elliptic–oblanceolate or oblanceolate, 3–5 (–5.5) cm long, 0.6–1.5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem, base attenuate to narrowly cuneate. Blades thinly coriaceous, pale yellowish green, often slightly glaucous and reflective. Margins entire, slightly thickened and weakly revolute. 1(–3) principal veins, the outer pair inconspicuous when present. Petioles 0–0.3 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence terminal, with 13–117 flowers, (4–) 8–23 cm long, usually laterally contracted, weakly congested, the hermaphroditic inflorescences slightly less congested and broader than the pistillate inflorescences; bracts of central axis 2–8 mm long, those of branches and flowers 1.5–3 mm long, green to purple–tinged, linear to subulate. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or pistillate. Calyx of hermaphroditic flowers with sepals 3.1–4.1 mm long, narrowly ovate, broadly and very shallowly navicular, oriented at 45° to 80° angle to the pedicel, green or tinged purple toward the apex, opaque, reflexed and convex at the base, producing a small transverse bulge, glabrous, margins scarious, sometimes somewhat irregularly undulate, entire, glabrous, apex sometimes inrolled, obtuse. Pistillate flowers: sepals 2.75–4.2 mm long, narrowly ovate, green or yellowish green, pale yellow at the base, opaque, reflexed and convex at the base, producing a small transverse bulge, broadly navicular to nearly flat, oriented at 60° to 90° angle to the pedicel, sometimes strongly upcurved near the middle, margins scarious and often irregularly undulate, glabrous, apex often inrolled, obtuse. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 10 (–12) in hermaphroditic flowers, sometimes a few (especially of the antisepalous whorl) non–functional and short, the filaments dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl 4–5.8 mm long, the alternate whorl 3.5–5 mm long; anthers 0.6–0.9 mm long, yellow. Pistillate flowers: Stamens 10 (–12), vestigial; filaments unequal, the antisepalous whorl 0.9–1.7 mm long, the alternate whorl (0.4–) 0.75–1 mm long; anthers 0.4–0.6 mm long, pale yellow, not producing pollen. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles (2–) 3 (–4), green (hermaphroditic flowers) or pale yellow (pistillate flowers).

Fruit: Capsules 4.5–5 mm long; ovoid. Seeds 0.7–0.9 mm long; orbicular–reniform; the surface papillose; papillae of the margins larger than those of the faces; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = 55*–60*; probably 60*

Habitat: Scattered on ridges and steep slopes usually beyond the reach of grazing animals in remnant dry shrubland.

Elevation Range: 180–670 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Scattered on ridges and steep slopes usually beyond the reach of grazing animals in remnant dry shrubland, 180-360 m, known only from south of Waikapti, Kaunohua, Md'alaea, Olowalu, and inland of Lahaina, West Maui
  • Schiedeo salicaria is most closely related to S. adamantis, endemic to Diamond Head, O'ahu.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 33 (1888)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:519 (WM); Wagner et al. 2005:137 (KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Rocky slopes, above Erythrina forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 5804 Maui PTBG 5/1/1987
2 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4053 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
3 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Natalia Tangalin 778 Maui PTBG 5/30/2006
4 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4044 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
5 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4055 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
6 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood 4029 Maui US 2/14/1995
7 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information mixed mesic shrubland/grassland with steep to vertical rocky slopes and ridges dominated by native plant species PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Oppenheimer, H. 11942 Maui US 6/21/2006
8 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information mixed mesic shrubland/grassland with steep to vertical rocky slopes and ridges dominated by native plant species PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & h. oppenheimer 11942 Maui US 6/21/2006
9 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Degraded shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman & h. l. oppenheimer 21654 Maui US 5/21/2009
10 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood & s. p. perlman 328 Maui US 6/9/1990
11 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R. W. 2118 Maui US 6/25/1984
12 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN 853-136 Kauai US
13 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Degraded shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Oppenheimer, H. L. 21654 Maui US 5/21/2009
14 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Weller, S. G.; Sakai, A. K. 842 Maui US 7/5/1985
15 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 6790 Maui BISH 2/9/1998
16 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN r. hobdy 2118 Maui US 6/25/1984
17 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN 853-132 Maui US
18 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. g. weller & a. k. sakai 842 Maui US 7/5/1985
19 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On moist rocks and trunks of mountain apple trees. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. stevens, b.; hansen, g. collector number: h30405 Oahu BISH 3/5/2004
20 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. collector number: h59803 Hawaii BISH 5/3/1999
21 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On ridge in dry shrubland. Associated vegetation: Osteomeles, Metrosideros, Eragrostis, Wikstroemia, Dodonaea, Carex, Sphenomeris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H30405 Maui BISH 3/5/2004
22 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on vertical rock wall 10 ft above Waikapu Stream. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H59803 Maui BISH 5/3/1999
23 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-08
24 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Steep N-facing rock face in remnant dry shrubland PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wood, k.r. perlman, s. collector number: 328 Maui BISH 5/9/1990
25 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH 1870-00-00
26 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 6799 Maui BISH 2/9/1998
27 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information About 50 plants growing in low scrub on ridgetop and north slope. Other ssp. aalii, iliahi aloe, Eragrostis variabilis, Lipochaeta lavarum, Bidens micrantha, Nesoluma polynesicum, Doryopteris decipiens, also molasses grass, Lantana, Casuarina, silk oak, Java plum, haole koa. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 2118 Maui BISH 6/25/1984
28 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros forest; a common species with numerous inds. fertile PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 1000 Hawaii BISH 2/24/1981
29 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information rocky slps above Erythrina forest w/ Leucaena, Sida, Achyranthes splendens near Hibiscus brackenridgei exclosure. Local pop ca. 200 plants PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. collector number: 5804 Maui BISH 5/1/1987
30 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information growing in low native scrub and grass on an exposed and windy ridge PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 1000 Maui BISH 2/24/1981
31 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 6817 Maui BISH 2/10/1998
32 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. Collector Number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-01
33 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information rocky slps above Erythrina forest w/ Leucaena, Sida, Achyranthes splendens near Hibiscus brackenridgei exclosure. Local pop ca. 200 plants PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 5804 Maui BISH 5/1/1987
34 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wagner, w.l. shannon, r. collector number: 6817 Maui BISH 2/10/1998
35 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH 1870-00-00
36 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information on steep areas inaccessible to cattle. growing in many-branched clumps PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 2007 Maui BISH 3/6/1984
37 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on a steep face on the south side of the gulch. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 803 Maui BISH 5/13/1980
38 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On open windswept ridge in low scrub. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 3271 Maui BISH 1/10/1991
39 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Weller, S.G. Not on sheet Maui BISH 6/7/1905
40 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on vertical rock wall 10 ft above Waikapu Stream. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. Collector Number: H59803 Maui BISH 5/3/1999
41 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 6821 Maui BISH 2/11/1998
42 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On ridge in dry shrubland. Associated vegetation: Osteomeles, Metrosideros, Eragrostis, Wikstroemia, Dodonaea, Carex, Sphenomeris. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. Stevens, B.; Hansen, G. Collector Number: H30405 Maui BISH 3/5/2004
43 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Steep N-facing rock face in remnant dry shrubland PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. 328 Maui BISH 5/9/1990
44 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on a steep face on the south side of the gulch. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 803 Maui BISH 5/13/1980
45 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. Collector Number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-01
46 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-08
47 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 1870-08-08
48 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information on steep areas inaccessible to cattle. growing in many-branched clumps PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 2007 Maui BISH 3/6/1984
49 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN j. s. meidel 158 NY 1/11/1997
50 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN W. L. Wagner 6817 Maui PTBG 2/10/1998
51 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN W. L. Wagner 6790 Maui PTBG 2/9/1998
52 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4031 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
53 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4054 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
54 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Alien vegetation; degraded Dodonaea viscosa shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 21654 Maui PTBG 5/21/2009
55 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Alien vegetation; degraded Dodonaea viscosa shrubland PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 21654 Maui PTBG 5/21/2009
56 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN J. Scott Meidell & Hank Oppenheimer 158 Maui PTBG 1/11/1997
57 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4029 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
58 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H50729 Maui PTBG 5/22/2007
59 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4056 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
60 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4050 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
61 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4030 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
62 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Stephen G. Weller s.n. Maui PTBG 1/1/1985
63 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN W. L. Wagner 6799 Maui PTBG 2/9/1998
64 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN W. L. Wagner 6821 Maui PTBG 2/11/1998
65 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 7256 Maui PTBG 3/12/1998
66 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing on steep rock face in remnant dry shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 328 Maui PTBG 5/9/1990
67 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Bob Hobdy 803 Maui PTBG 5/13/1980
68 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4029 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
69 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 4052 Maui PTBG 2/14/1995
70 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mixed mesic shrubland/grassland with steep to vertical rocky slopes and ridges dominated by native plant species. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 11942 Maui PTBG 6/21/2006
71 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P. 328 Maui US 6/9/1990
72 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood 4052 Maui US 2/14/1995
73 Schiedea salicaria Hillebr. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH 1870-00-00