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Vinca major

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Gentianales Family: Apocynaceae Genus: Vinca

blue buttons, greater periwinkle, large periwinkle, vinca

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Herbs to 1 m tall, with stolons and watery juice.

Stems: Flowering stems to 30 cm.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades elliptic, ovate, or broadly ovate, 2–9 X 2–6 cm. Base truncate or subcordate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins ciliate with hairs 0.1–1 mm. Lateral veins to 5 pairs. Short-petiolate. Stipules absent or vestigial.

Flowers: Flowers in pedicel 3–5 cm. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals narrowly triangular, ca. 9 mm, densely ciliate, without glands. Corolla funnelform, tube cylindric, bluish purple, tube 1.2–1.5 cm, limb 3–5 cm in diam, lobes obliquely truncate, spreading, shorter than tube, overlapping to left. Stamens 5, inserted just below middle of corolla tube; anthers short, applanate, apex puberulent. Disc glands 2, ligulate, alternating with ovaries. Ovary superior; styles filiform; pistil head ringlike, apex densely hairy.

Fruit: Follicles 2; spreading; ca. 5 cm; cylindric; striate. Seeds glabrous.

Ploidy: 2n = 92

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Water/Ocean

Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Specimens

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 209 (1753)

Other References

Starr et al. 2002:17 (NEWNAT/EM, DESCR); Parker & Parsons 2016:17 (H, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Vinca major L. hawaii national park PRESERVED_SPECIMEN fagerlund, g.o. mitchell, a.l. collector number: 282 Hawaii BISH 1/27/1943
2 Vinca major L. East Maui, Makawao District, Crater Road, near residential area PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Starr, F. 990105-2 Maui BISH 1/5/1998
3 Vinca major L. Alae, North of Naalae Gulch . PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H10103 Maui PTBG 1/2/2001
4 Vinca major L. kilauea, cult. in garden Attached to Hypnea exposed at low tide on limestone benches east of Cove. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN suehiro, a. Oahu BISH 9/1/1953
5 Vinca major L. Hawaii National Park PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fagerlund, G.O. 282 Hawaii BISH 1/27/1943
6 Vinca major L. Hawaii National Park PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Fagerlund, G.O. Mitchell, A.L. Collector Number: 282 Hawaii BISH 1/27/1943
7 Vinca major L. MAUI: E. Maui, Makawao District, Alae, North of Naalae Gulch , 3280 ft. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H10103 Maui PTBG 1/2/2001
8 Vinca major L. Kilauea, cult. in garden PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Suehiro, A. Not on sheet Hawaii BISH 9/1/1953
9 Vinca major L. Kilauea, cult. in garden PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Suehiro, A. Hawaii BISH 9/1/1953
10 Vinca major L. east maui, makawao district, crater road, near residential area PRESERVED_SPECIMEN starr, f. martz, k. collector number: 990105-2 Maui BISH 1/5/1998
11 Vinca major L. East Maui, Makawao District, Crater Road, near residential area PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Starr, F. Martz, K. Collector Number: 990105-2 Maui BISH 1/5/1998
12 Vinca major L. Mana Road near Piha section of the Hilo Forest Reserve Associates: Metrosideros polymorpha, Eucalyptus robusta, Prunus sp., Acacia koa PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Parker, J. BIED 174 Hawaii BISH 4/3/2013
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