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Melicope adscendens

(H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone (1989)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Melicope

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Sprawling shrubs, new growth densely yellowish to golden brown puberulent; branches long, slender, grayish pubescent, becoming glabrate, pubescence persistent in axils.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite, widely spaced. Blades elliptic, elliptic–ovate, or elliptic–oblong, 1.5–6.5 cm long, 1–4 cm wide. Apex rounded and emarginate or minutely mucronulate. Base emarginate to subcordate. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces minutely puberulent when young, soon glabrate; blades, coriaceous to chartaceous. Margins entire. Primary lateral veins ca. 14 pairs, venation pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern. Petioles 6–16 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1–3 in slender, delicate, elongated, axillary cymes, peduncles 13–17 mm long, pedicels 4–8(–14) mm long, bracteoles ca. 1.4 mm long, puberulent, those at base of pedicels similar but less that 1 mm long. bracts small, opposite. Flowers functionally unisexual (and the plants monoecious). Calyx of 4 sepals; sepals imbricate. Corolla of 4 petals; petals deltate, valvate. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, distinct; staminate flowers with sepals ovate, ca. 3.5 mm long, minutely puberulent, ovate, ca. 5 mm long, minutely puberulent, nectary disk minutely puberulent, ovary rudimentary, glabrous. Ovary superior, (pistillate flowers unknown), 4-celled and 4-lobed, carpels connate, only slightly distinct at apex to almost entirely distinct; ovules 2 per cell, hemitropous, 1 ascending; style 1, terminating in 4 short stigmatic branches.

Fruit: Fruit 14–15 mm wide; subtended by persistent sepals and petals; of distinct follicles 7–7.5 mm long; exocarp glabrous; with 2–3 concentric wrinkles; endocarp glabrous. the carpels dehiscing along the upper suture. Seeds 1–2 per cell; glossy black when ripe; crustaceous; ovoid; sometimes angled from compression; embryo straight in fleshy endosperm; radicle short; cotyledons compressed; ovate; putamen brown; warty.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Mesic forest.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Taxon 38: 120 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1183 (EM [as Pelea adscendens]); Hartley & Stone 1989:120 (COMBNOV:Syn. P. adscendens)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Sprawling on aa and other vegetation, inside fenced exclosure. Associated vegetation: Diospyros, Dodonaea, Osteomeles, Wikstroemia, Ipomoea, Pleomele, Lepisorus, Asplenium, Doryopteris, Pellaea, Plectranthus, Peperomia, Cyperus. Threats: weeds such as Lantana, Bidens, Rubus. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H70602 Maui BISH 7/5/2006
2 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mixed open dry forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 7672 Maui PTBG 2/9/1999
3 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN H. L. Oppenheimer, C. Chimera & R. Nakagawa H40001 Maui US 4/2/2000
4 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P.; Medieros, A.; Hobdy, R.; Hobdy, N. 266 Maui US 3/24/1990
5 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R.; Perlman, S. P.; Deush, R. 2748 Maui US 9/15/1993
6 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. l. oppenheimer, c. chimera & r. nakagawa h40001 Maui US 4/2/2000
7 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H. L.; Chimera, C.; Nakagawa, R. H40001 Maui US 4/2/2000
8 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 2100.m Maui US 3/24/1920
9 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood, s. p. perlman, a. medieros, r. hobdy & n. hobdy 266 Maui US 3/24/1990
10 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros forest with Myrsine lanaiensis, Ochrosia, Streblus, Nestegis sandwicensis, Lantana camera PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wood, k.r. perlman, s., richard deush collector number: 2748 Maui BISH 9/15/1993
11 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Acacia koa- Metrosideros forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 2748 Maui PTBG 9/15/1993
12 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H. L.; Chimera, C. H40002 Maui US 4/2/2000
13 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. l. oppenheimer & c. chimera h40002 Maui US 4/2/2000
14 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood 442 US 11/29/1990
15 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K. R. 442 Maui US 11/29/1990
16 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C. N. 2100.M Maui US 3/24/2020
17 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN H. L. Oppenheimer & C. Chimera H40002 Maui US 4/2/2000
18 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Sprawling on aa and other vegetation, inside fenced exclosure. Associated vegetation: Diospyros, Dodonaea, Osteomeles, Wikstroemia, Ipomoea, Pleomele, Lepisorus, Asplenium, Doryopteris, Pellaea, Plectranthus, Peperomia, Cyperus. Threats: weeds such as Lantana, Bidens, Rubus. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. Collector Number: H70602 Maui BISH 7/5/2006
19 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Primary Diospyros & Pleomele open forest, dry to mesic, sadly degraded by cattle. Assoc. with Dodonaea, Styphelia, Chamaesyce celastroides var. lorifolia, Physalis. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. 266 Maui BISH 3/24/1990
20 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 2088.M Maui BISH 3/24/1920
21 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN oppenheimer, h.l. collector number: h70602 Oahu BISH 7/5/2006
22 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros - Acacia - Cibotium forest. On wet, shaded rocks. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 2088.m Hawaii BISH 3/24/1920
23 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 2100.m Maui BISH 3/24/1920
24 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Primary Diospyros & Pleomele open forest, dry to mesic, sadly degraded by cattle. Assoc. with Dodonaea, Styphelia, Chamaesyce celastroides var. lorifolia, Physalis. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wood, k.r. perlman, s.; medeiros, a.; hobdy, r.w.; hobdy, n. collector number: 0266 Maui BISH 3/24/1990
25 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Metrosideros forest with Myrsine lanaiensis, Ochrosia, Streblus, Nestegis sandwicensis, Lantana camera PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wood, K.R. 2748 Maui BISH 9/15/1993
26 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 442 Maui PTBG 11/29/1990
27 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 2088.m Maui BISH 3/24/1920
28 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information arid volcano cliffs PRESERVED_SPECIMEN k. r. wood, s. p. perlman & r. deush 2748 PH 9/15/1993
29 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Primary Diospyros-Pleomele forest, dry to mesic, sadly degraded by cattle. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 266 Maui PTBG 3/24/1990
30 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 2100.M Maui BISH 3/24/1920
31 Melicope adscendens (H.St.John & E.P.Hume) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Inside fenced exclosure on aa. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H70602 Maui PTBG 7/5/2006
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