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Schiedea lydgatei

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: Shrubs, 1–10 dm tall.

Stems: Stems erect to sprawling, terete (cylindrical), 4–angled or –ridged, with many short lateral branches, glabrous, intemodes 0.5–7.5 cm long, green to greenish purple, older wood with tan bark.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades elliptic to broadly elliptic, or elliptic–ovate or elliptic–lanceolate, 2–5 cm long, 0.6–1.7 cm wide. Apex acuminate, mucronate. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem, base cuneate. Blades thinly coriaceous, pale yellowish green, often slightly glaucous and reflective. Margins entire, slightly thickened and weakly revolute. 3 principal veins, the outer pair often less conspicuous than the midvein. Petioles 0.4–0.6 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence terminal, with 7–109 flowers, 10–25 cm long, diffuse; bracts of central axis 2–6 mm long, those of branches and flowers 2–2.5 mm long, green to purple–tinged, subulate; pedicels (8–) 10–18 (–20) mm long, quadrangular and conspicuously flattened, the wider side usually grooved. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals 4–4.7 mm long, narrowly ovate, broadly and very shallowly navicular, oriented at 45° to 80° angle to the pedicel, green or tinged purple, the veins paler, opaque, reflexed and convex at the base, producing a small transverse bulge, glabrous, margins scarious, sometimes somewhat irregularly undulate, entire, glabrous, obtuse. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 10, the filaments dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl 5.5–5.6 mm long, the alternate whorl 4.9–5.2 mm long; anthers 0.7–0.9 mm long, yellow. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles 3 (–4), green.

Fruit: Capsules 4–5.5 mm long; ovoid. Seeds 0.8 mm long; orbicular; the faces rugose; the margins papillose; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = possibly 50*; 60*

Habitat: Locally common in dry shrubland; especially before the fires of 1988 and 1991.

Elevation Range: 600–955 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Rare in mesic to dry forest, ca. 600- 650 m, known only from Kamald Gulch, O'oa, Makakupa'ia Gulch, and Popohua Gulch, Moloka'i.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 34 (1888)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:516 (Mo); Wagner, Weller & Sakai 2005:134 (KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry exotic grass with scattered native and exotic trees Preserved_Specimen Stemmermann, R.L. 3904 Molokai BISH 1979-07-14
2 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dry shrubland Preserved_Specimen Vine with dry inflorescences Pratt, L.W. 1263 Molokai BISH 1982-05-31
3 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On mostly west facing lower slopes in mesic shrubland. Vegetation: Dodonaea, Metrosideros, Diospyros, Schiedea, Silene, Lepidium, Carex, Pleomele, Bidens, Cyperus, Lipochaeta, Pouteria, Melicope, Scaevola, Ageratina, Pouteria, Doryopteris, Melinis, Asplenium, Luzula, Ipomoea, Pteridium, Chenopodium, Sperolepis. Preserved_Specimen Upright shrubs up to 1 meter tall. Over 100 plants observed in this general area. Young shoots have more succulent leaves that are generally broader, with more prominent nerves. Oppenheimer, H.L. 10912 Molokai BISH 2009-01-13
4 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Dodonaea, Wikstroemia, Sida, Bidens menziesii, Rhynchelytrum, and Melinus Preserved_Specimen Upright to sprawling shrub, fairly common. Wagner, W.L. 6682 Molokai BISH 1992-01-19
5 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Leptocophyllum tameiameiae shrubland with Dodonaea viscosa, Bidens menziesii, Schiedea sarmentosa, Sida fallax, Carex meyenii, Sicyos, Silene lanceolta, Silene alexandri, Lepidium bidentatum, Rumex, Diosypros sndwicensis, Spermolepis hawaiiensis, Doryopteris, Ageratina adenophora, Lantana camara, Melinis minutiflora.. Preserved_Specimen Shrubs 1 m ht with fls and frt. Perlman, S. 21344 Molokai BISH 2009-01-13
6 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Dodonaea-Styphelia lowland mesic shrubland with Vaccinium, Psychotria, Diospyros, Sophora chrysophylla, Neraudia sericea, Lipochaeta rockii, Bidens menziesii, Myoporum, Wikstroemia, Metrosideros, Pleomele, Pittosporum, Chamaesyce, Lysimachia, Viola, Pipturus, Scaevola, Urera glabra, Lantana, Melinis minutiflora, Schiedea. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 6677 Molokai BISH 1987-10-23
7 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry native shrubs, scattered mixed native trees Preserved_Specimen Stemmermann, R.L. 3876 Molokai BISH 1979-06-20
8 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Dodonaea-Styphelia lowland mesic shrubland with Vaccinum, Psychotria, Diospyros, Sophora chrysophyla, Neraudia sericea, Lipochaeta rockii, Bidens menziesii, Myoporum, Wikstroemia, Metrosideros, Pleomele, Pittosporum, Chamaesyce, Lysimachia, Viola, Pipturus, Scaevola, Urera glabra, Lantana, Melinis minutiflora, Schiedea. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 6677 Molokai BISH 1987-10-23
9 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In a mesic dry shrubland of Metrosideros; Dodonaea; Styphelia; Pleomele auwahiensis. Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 835 Molokai BISH 1991-06-12
10 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry; Metrosideros, Dodonaea, Styphelia, Pleomele auwahiensis Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 835 Molokai BISH 1991-06-12
11 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details A few plants observed on lower, east facing gulch slope, on rocky soil. Vegetation: Dodonaea, Metrosideros, Diospyros, Schiedea, Silene, Pteridium, Lepidium, Pleomele, Bidens, Cyperus, Lipochaeta, Pouteria, Melicope, Luzula, Scaevola, Ageratina, Doryopteris, Pseudognaphalium, Melinis, Asplenium, Ipomoea, Carex, Plectranthus, Chenopodium, Spermolepis. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 10913 Molokai BISH 2009-01-13
12 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2' bushy shrub Hobdy, R.W. 540 Molokai BISH 1979-05-14
13 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dondonaea-Styphelia lowland mesic shrubland; with Neraudia sericea, Bidens menziesii, Pleomele, Pittosporum. Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 1993 Molokai BISH 1992-07-08
14 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Dodonaea-Styphelia lowland mesic shrubland with Vaccinum, Psychotria, Diospyros, Sophora chrysophyla, Neraudia sericea, Lipochaeta rockii, Bidens menziesii, Myoporum, Wikstroemia, Metrosideros, Pleomele, Pittosporum, Chamaesyce, Lysimachia, Viola, Pipturus, Scaevola, Urera glabra, Lantana, Melinis minutiflora, Schiedea. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 6677 Molokai BISH 1987-10-23
15 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6857 Molokai BISH 1998-02-12
16 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 117 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
17 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. Molokai BISH 1910-06-01
18 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details SE side of planted Pinus Preserved_Specimen 30 cm shrub; glabrous, branched; full flowering, some seeds Wood, K.R. 606 Molokai BISH 1991-02-26
19 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7014 Molokai BISH 1910-01-01
20 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2' bushy shrub Hobdy, R.W. 545 Molokai BISH 1979-05-14
21 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH
22 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Misaki, E.T. 9 Molokai BISH 1985-05-23
23 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 1088 Molokai BISH 1910-06-01
24 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 103 Molokai BISH 1912-06-01
25 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2' bushy shrub Hobdy, R.W. 540 Molokai BISH 1979-05-14
26 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details with Metrosideros, Dodonaea, Styphelia, Eragrostis, Viola, Schiedea, Lepidium, Panicum, Lipochaeta, Bidens, Melinis minutiflora, Lantana camara Preserved_Specimen 1 m, few branched shrub; stems tan brown; upright Wood, K.R. 6031 Molokai BISH 1997-02-27
27 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Misaki, E.T. 10 Molokai BISH 1985-05-23
28 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Misaki, E.T. 5 Molokai BISH 1985-02-19
29 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6856 Molokai BISH 1998-02-12
30 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pekelo Jr., N. Molokai BISH 1973-11-02
31 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH
32 Schiedea lydgatei Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Molokai BISH
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