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Cyanea recta

(Wawra) Hillebr. (1888)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Campanulaceae Genus: Cyanea

hāhā [haha]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Unbranched shrubs 1–1.5 m tall.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades narrowly elliptic, blades 12–28 cm long, 1.2–5 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Base attenuate. Upper surfaces green, glabrous; lower surfaces whitish green to pale green, glabrous or pubescent. Margins minutely callose–denticulate. Petioles 1.5–4 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences 5–7–flowered, peduncles 7–10 mm long, pedicels 5–17 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect); hypanthium obovoid, 6–10 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, pubescent. Calyx lobes triangular, 2–2.5 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, apex acute. Corolla purple or white with purple longitudinal stripes, 30–40 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, densely pubescent, the tube suberect, the lobes spreading. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes, connate; staminal column glabrous or sparsely pubescent at base; anthers minutely papillose, the lower 2 with apical tufts of white hairs. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovule placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed, wet or dry, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Berries purple; obovoid. Seeds numerous.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Formerly occurring in mesic forest; northeastern Kaua'i.

Elevation Range: 550–700 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 255 (1888)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:461 (K); Lammers 1992:130 (KEY); Lorence et al. 1995:29 (REDISCOVER/K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 10355 Kauai BISH 1911-10-01
2 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wawra, H. 6062 Kauai BISH
3 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Above major waterfall, along main stream, and climbing above numerous small waterfalls. Lowland wet mixed forested, undisturbed, with Metrosideros, Antidesma, Cibotium, Hedyotis tryblium, Pipturus, Cyrtandra, Isodendrion longifolium, and numerous pteridophytes. Preserved_Specimen 2 m tall; multi trunked; in flower; rare in area. Wood, K.R. 1110 Kauai BISH 1991-08-06
4 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wawra, H. 2062 Kauai BISH
5 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kauai BISH
6 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Dicranopteris lowland wet shrubland with small pockets of mixed wet forest below ridgeline with Broussaisia arguta, Melicope feddei, Psychotira mariniana & P. wawrae, Kadua sandwicensis, Dubautia laxa Preserved_Specimen tree, single or with few branches, flowers and hypanthium purple, immature fruit Wood, K.R. 15248 Kauai BISH 2012-09-21
7 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Heller, A.A. 2607 Kauai BISH 1895-07-23
8 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Larrison, G.K. 10342 Kauai BISH 1914-10-17
9 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details From spreading cluster of individuals under open ohia canopy Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 109 Kauai BISH 1983-07-30
10 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron mixed wet forest with matting ferns of Diploptergium & Dicranopteris w/Broussaisia arguta, Touchardia latifolia, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Antidesma platyphylla, Kadua affinis, melicope wawraeana, Vaccinium calycinum, Coprosma kauaense, Dubautia laxa, D. pale Preserved_Specimen Tree, few branched, fruit purple, sap yellowish, oleaves broadr than usual. Wood, K.R. 15707 Kauai BISH 2013-11-06
11 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron mixed wet forest with matting ferns of Diplopterygium & Dicanopteris w/ Broussaisia arguta, Touchardia latifolia, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Antidesma platyphylla, Kadua affinis, Melicope wawraena, Vaccinium calycinum, Coprosma kauaense, Dubautia laxa, D. pale Preserved_Specimen trees, up to 3m, hypanthium, flower, and calyx purple Wood, K.R. 15648 Kauai BISH 2013-08-28
12 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros polymorpha -- Docranopteris linearis wet forest. W/ Machaerina angustifolia, Pritchardia flynnii, Bidens forbesii, Antidesma platyphylla, Cheirodendron trigynum, Bobea elatior, Ilex, Cyanea kahiliensis, Cyanea fissa, weeds: Cyathea cooperi, Psidiu. Preserved_Specimen Several hundred plants 2-3 meter ht with flower, flower color purple, no fruit. Perlman, S. 23662 Kauai BISH 2013-08-28
13 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest in gulch. Preserved_Specimen Single-stemmed plant 30 in tall, stem diameter: 3/4 in, calyx: purple with red tint, corolla: rose-violet. Christensen, C. 339 Kauai BISH 1980-08-10
14 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Closed Metrosideros forest, 8-12 m canopy. Understory dominated by Antidesma w/ mixed wet associates, Syzygium, Broussaisia, Perrottetia, Cyrtandra spp, Psychotria spp, Dubautia spp, Labordia spp, Coprosma waimeae, Cheirodendron spp, Tetraplasandra Preserved_Specimen Tree, unbranched, lvs dark green above, white-green below, hypanthium and outer croolla purple, lobes with white margins, ca 1000+ in N fork. Wood, K.R. 13261 Kauai BISH 2008-09-10
15 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details From spreading cluster of individuals under open ohia canopy Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 109 Kauai BISH 1983-07-30
16 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest in gulch. Preserved_Specimen Single-stemmed plant 30 in tall, stem diameter: 3/4 in, calyx: purple with red tint, corolla: rose-violet. Christensen, C. 339 Kauai BISH 1980-08-10
17 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details East facing slopes below ridgeline between Kapalaoa and Kawaikini Metrosideros polymorpha-Dicranopteris linearis wet forest W/Antidesma platyphylla, Ilex anomala, Polyscias waialeale, Scaevola gaudichaudiana, Bobea brevipes, Psychotria mariniana, Cyanea kahiliensis Preserved_Specimen About 6 plants, 2 meter ht with fruit Perlman, S. 23761 Kauai BISH 2013-11-25
18 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details From spreading cluster of individuals under open ohia canopy Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 109 Kauai BISH 1983-07-30
19 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Dicranopteris lowland wet forest. Associated plants: Isodendrion longifolium, Panicum lineale, Cyanea recta, Melicope, Bidens campylotheca subsp. campylotheca, Hesperomannia, Adenophorus periens, Joinvillea, Pritchardia sp nov, Tetraplasandra, Syzygium, Psychotria, Freycinetia, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Antidesma, Dubautia, Alyxia, Cheirodendron, Boehmeria, Urera Preserved_Specimen 1. 5 m tall tree; corolla pink-red; occasional in area. Wood, K.R. 2046 Kauai BISH 1992-08-06
20 Cyanea recta Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Subshrub 1 m. ht. Corolla violet, lobes white at edges. Along trail with Metrosideros-Gouldia-Cheirondendron association. Nagata, K.M. 2132 Kauai BISH 1980-09-09
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