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Sanicula purpurea

H.St.John & Hosaka (1935)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Apiaceae Genus: Sanicula

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial, rather stout, erect or ascending herbs 0.8–3.6 dm tall, from a massive multicipital caudex.

Stems: Caulescent, stems usually several, decumbent, tufted, paniculately–cymosely branched.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, basal leaves numerous, cauline leaves reduced upward. Basal leaves reniform or orbicular to ovate–cordate, 2–8 cm wide, 3–7–lobed ½ or less to petiole; basal leaf lobes orbicular to obovate. Blades of basal leaves coriaceous. Margins crenate–serrate with mucronate teeth; cauline leaves palmately 3–5-cleft to or below the middle with obovate lobes. Basal leaf veins impressed on upper surface, prominent on lower surface. Cauline leaves petiolate to subsessile; basal petioles slender, 5–25 cm. long, abruptly sheathing at base. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in paniculately arranged terminal clusters of 1–3 pedunculate, capitate umbels plus similar clusters in upper leaf axils. Umbels 6–10–flowered. Peduncles 0.5–1.5 cm long. Involucre of ca. 10, rather conspicuous, oblong or oblanceolate bracts 3–6 mm long. Perfect flowers 1–3, sessile; staminate flowers 5–7, their pedicels ca. 3 mm long. Calyx teeth ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, obtuse, nearly distinct, in fruit exceeding fruit prickles. Corolla of 5 petals; petals purple or cream, tinged–purple. Stamens 5, inserted on an epigynous disk. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 1 per cells, anatropous; styles 2, usually swollen at base into a stylopodium.Styles a little longer than calyx teeth, recurved.

Fruit: Fruit subglobose; 2–3.5 mm long; 2–3 mm in diameter; mericarps somewhat compressed dorsally in transection; covered with slender; straight or slightly curved; slightly bulbous–based prickles; vittae inconspicuous; commissural surface shallowly concave; the commissural scar lanceolate. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Scattered on mossy precipitous slopes and in open bogs; rarely in low elevation wet forest; in the Ko'olau Mountains; O'ahu; and on West Maui.

Elevation Range: 700–1,460 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Occas. Pap. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 11(13): 6 (1935)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:210 (O, WM)

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros wet shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H81410 Maui PTBG 8/18/2014
2 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 14703 Oahu PTBG 3/12/1995
3 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Montane Wet Forest and windswept shrubland ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 6156 Maui PTBG 4/11/1997
4 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros polymorpha-Oreobolus montane wet bog. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 10609 Maui PTBG 4/12/1988
5 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest & windswept shrubland ridges, scattered bogs & headwater drainages into Waihee. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 6183 Maui PTBG 4/11/1997
6 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet shrublands and windwept bogs with patches of forest along streams. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 6068 Maui PTBG 3/19/1997
7 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros - Oreobolus bog. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 16154 Maui PTBG 1/27/1998
8 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros -Dicranopteris montane wet shrub. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 14168 Maui PTBG 5/4/1994
9 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros lowland wet shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 13376 Oahu PTBG 3/3/1993
10 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros mixed montane wet shrublands. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 10745 Maui PTBG 10/2/1989
11 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN f. r. fosberg 9734 Oahu US 8/6/1933
12 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros montane wet bogs with Coprosma, Rhynchospora, Myrsine vaccinioides, Geranium humile, Viola maviensis, Lobelia gloria-montis, Plantago pachyphylla, Melicope, Cheirodendron, Vaccinium, Oreobolus, Dubautia laxa. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. 6928 Maui BISH 11/15/1987
13 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hosaka, E.Y. 1135 Oahu BISH 8/6/1933
14 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. lydgate, j.m. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH
15 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Cranwell, L.M. 3882 Maui BISH 7/26/1938
16 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN f. r. fosberg 9734 F 8/6/1933
17 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mossy Divide PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 17628 Oahu BISH 4/28/1935
18 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Grassy divide PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 10179 Oahu BISH 1/19/1930
19 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros montane wet bogs with Coprosma, Rhynchospora, Myrsine vaccinioides, Geranium humile, Viola maviensis, Lobelia gloria-montis, Plantago pachyphylla, Melicope, Cheirodendron, Vaccinium, Oreobolus, Dubautia laxa. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN perlman, s.p. obata, j.; hill, b.; palmer, d. collector number: 6928 Maui BISH 11/15/1987
20 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Scattered on steep, windswept mossy slope in Metrosideros Wet Shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H71404 Maui BISH 7/18/2014
21 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 716 Oahu BISH 10/24/1979
22 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN F. R. Fosberg 12333 F 11/10/1935
23 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Scattered on steep, windswept mossy slope in Metrosideros Wet Shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H81409 Maui BISH 8/18/2014
24 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fosberg, f.r. collector number: 13863 Oahu BISH 5/23/1937
25 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. lydgate, j.m. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH
26 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 10179 Oahu BISH 1/19/1930
27 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hosaka, e.y. collector number: 1135 Oahu BISH 8/6/1933
28 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Specimen on a steep slope, on a windswept E facing wall; assoc w/Plantago pachyphylla, Dryopteris glabra, Peperomia eekana, Diplopterygium pinnatum, various mosses. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. wood, k.r. collector number: 118 Maui BISH 5/1/1996
29 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fosberg, F.R. 14228 Oahu BISH 7/24/1937
30 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN grant, m.l. collector number: 7224 Oahu BISH 8/7/1934
31 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fosberg, f.r. collector number: 12333 Oahu BISH 11/10/1935
32 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 17628 Oahu BISH 4/28/1935
33 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fosberg, F.R. 12333 Oahu BISH 11/10/1935
34 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH
35 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hillebrand, w.b. lydgate, j.m. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH
36 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH
37 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Grant, M.L. 7224 Oahu BISH 8/7/1934
38 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 716 Maui BISH 10/24/1979
39 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Warshauer, F.R. FRW 3046 Maui BISH 8/15/1980
40 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 23559 Oahu BISH 2/20/1949
41 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN warshauer, f.r. mceldowney, p.h. collector number: frw 3078 Maui BISH 8/16/1980
42 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN f. r. fosberg 12333 F 11/10/1935
43 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman 10745 F 10/2/1989
44 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN F. R. Fosberg 9734 F 8/6/1933
45 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In open bog. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 15755 Maui PTBG 3/19/1997
46 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Montane Wet Forest w/ scattered bogs along ridges & riparian communities in cool side drainages. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 5159 Maui PTBG 5/1/1996
47 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros wet shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H81409 Maui PTBG 8/18/2014
48 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros montane wet bogs. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 6887 Maui PTBG 11/14/1987
49 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 17628 Oahu BISH 4/28/1935
50 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros polymorpha-Oreobolus montane wet bog. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 10585 Maui PTBG 4/12/1988
51 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros montane wet bogs PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 6928 Maui PTBG 11/15/1987
52 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros montane wet bog. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 10617 Maui PTBG 4/8/1988
53 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Montane Wet Forest w/ scattered bogs along ridges & riparian communities in cool side drainages. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 5159 Maui PTBG 5/1/1996
54 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information In Metrosideros-Oreobolus-Rhyncospora bog. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 15365 Maui PTBG 5/1/1996
55 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros-Cheirodendron Montane Wet Forest and windswept shrubland ridge. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 6156 Maui PTBG 4/11/1997
56 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN f. r. fosberg 12333 Oahu US 11/10/1935
57 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, b. hobdy & m. bruegmann 10617 Maui US 4/8/1988
58 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fosberg, F. R. 9734 Oahu US 1933-00-00
59 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 10179 Oahu US 1/19/1930
60 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, j. obata, b. hill & d. palmer 6928 Maui US 11/15/1987
61 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W. H. 5420 Maui US 7/27/1947
62 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, j. obata, b. hill & d. palmer 6928 Maui US 11/15/1987
63 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Gon, S.; Higashino, P.; Bartlett, R. 10745 Maui US 10/2/1989
64 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Obata, J.; Hill, B.; Palmer, D. 6928 Maui US 11/15/1987
65 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, s. gon, p. higashino & r. bartlett 10745 Maui US 10/2/1989
66 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN w. h. wagner 5420 Maui US 7/27/1947
67 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN s. p. perlman, r. bartlett & m. bruegmann 10609 Maui US 4/12/1988
68 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. st. john 10179 Oahu US 1/19/1930
69 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Bartlett, R.; Bruegmann, M. 10609 Maui US 4/12/1988
70 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. st. john 17628 Oahu US 4/28/1935
71 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Hobdy, B.; Bruegmann, M. 10617 Maui US 4/8/1988
72 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Perlman, S. P.; Obata, J.; Hill, B.; Palmer, D. 6928 Maui US 11/15/1987
73 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fosberg, F. R. 12333 Oahu US 11/10/1935
74 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 17628 Oahu US 4/28/1935
75 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mossy Divide PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 17628 Oahu BISH 4/28/1935
76 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Scattered on steep, windswept mossy slope in Metrosideros Wet Shrubland. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H81410 Maui BISH 8/18/2014
77 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Warshauer, F.R. FRW 3078 Maui BISH 8/16/1980
78 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Grassy divide PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 10179 Oahu BISH 1/19/1930
79 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 23559 Oahu BISH 2/20/1949
80 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fosberg, f.r. collector number: 9734 Hawaii BISH 8/6/1933
81 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Rain Forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Morley, H. 74 Oahu BISH 12/10/1933
82 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information rain forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Morley, H. 14 Oahu BISH 12/10/1933
83 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fosberg, F.R. 9734 Oahu BISH 8/6/1933
84 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN cranwell, l.m. selling, o.; skottsberg, c. collector number: 3882 Maui BISH 7/26/1938
85 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Rain Forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN morley, h. collector number: 74 Oahu BISH 12/10/1933
86 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hillebrand, W.B. s.n. Maui BISH
87 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Dredged -- Marine Algae Collection from the National Marine Fisheries Service, SWFC, Honolulu Laboratory. Frozen sample. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fosberg, f.r. egler, f.e. collector number: 14228 Hawaii BISH 7/24/1937
88 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fosberg, F.R. 13863 Oahu BISH 5/23/1937
89 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information On limb of fallen Charpentiera, in Aleurites-Microlepia dominated narrow gully. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN morley, h. collector number: 14 Oahu BISH 12/10/1933
90 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN warshauer, f.r. mceldowney, p.h. collector number: frw 3046 Maui BISH 8/15/1980
91 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Specimen on a steep slope, on a windswept E facing wall; assoc w/Plantago pachyphylla, Dryopteris glabra, Peperomia eekana, Diplopterygium pinnatum, various mosses. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. 118 Maui BISH 5/1/1996
92 Sanicula purpurea Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN S. P. Perlman 10745 F 10/2/1989
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