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Nephroia orbiculata

(L.) L.Lian & Wei Wang (2020)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Ranunculopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Menispermaceae Genus: Nephroia

‘inalua [inalua], hue, hue‘ie [hueie], huehue

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Scandent or sprawling vines.

Stems: Stems herbaceous or somewhat woody, sparsely to densely retrorsely puberulent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades variable, lanceolate, ovate to broadly ovate or suborbicular, 3–14 cm long, 0.8–6 cm wide. Apex acute to obtuse or rounded and with a mucronate tip. Base cordate to broadly or narrowly cuneate. Surfaces sparsely puberulent, especially along veins, to glabrate. Margins entire. Palmately veined; 3(5)-veined from base. Petioles 1–2(–2.8) cm long, usually densely antrorsely puberulent. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary, simple or compound cymes 2–8 cm long, peduncles 8–18 mm long, usually puberulent throughout, pedicels 2–3 mm long. Flowers unisexual (and the plants dioecious), yellowish white, small, actinomorphic. Calyx of 6–9 petals, in 2–3 whorls of usually 3, outermost whorl minute, those of middle whorl up to ca. 1 mm long those of inner whorl obovate to suborbicular, 1–2.5 mm long. Corolla of 6 petals, oblong, 1–1.5 mm long, apex usually divided into 2 acute lobes, with 2 incurved lobes near base and clasping the filament of the opposite stamen. Stamens in staminate flowers 6, ca. 1 mm long; anthers dithecal; pistillate flowers with 6 minute staminodes ca. 0.3 mm long. Ovary superior, 6, in pistillate flowers, distinct, arranged in whorls; ovules 2 per ovary, quickly reduced to 1 by abortion, attached to the ventral suture, pendulous; style cylindrical; stigma lateral.

Fruit: Drupes dark blue; ca. 4–5 mm in diameter; glabrous; endocarp bony; containing the seed in a horseshoe–shaped cavity. Seeds curved.

Ploidy: 2n = 50; 52; 78

Habitat: Open areas such as grasslands; raised coralline plains; talus slopes; on dry ʻaʻā lava; and in crevices of pahoehoe lava; and in mesic to dry forest.

Elevation Range: 2–1,400 m.

Historical Distribution

Synonyms (66)

Bradleia nephroia Steud. (1821)
Cebatha cuneifolia (Miers) Kuntze (1891)
Cebatha ferrandiana (Gaudich.) Kuntze (1891)
Cebatha integra (Hillebr.) Kuntze (1891)
Cebatha lonchophylla (Miers) Kuntze (1891)
Cebatha mollis (Miers) Kuntze (1891)
Cebatha orbiculata (L.) Kuntze (1891)
Cebatha orbiculata f. macrophylla Nakai (1919)
Cebatha virgata (Hillebr.) Kuntze (1891)
Cissampelos orbiculata (L.) DC. (1817)
Cissampelos pareira var. orbiculata (L.) Miq. (1868)
Cocculus cuneatus Benth. (1861)
Cocculus cynanchoides C.Presl (1835)
Cocculus diantherus Hook. & Arn. (1833)
Cocculus dichopetalus Turcz. (1854)
Cocculus elegans (Ridl.) Ridl. (1922)
Cocculus ferrandianus Gaudich. (1830)
Cocculus hexagynus Colebr. (1821)
Cocculus integer Hillebr. (1888)
Cocculus lenissimus Gagnep. (1908)
Cocculus lonchophyllus (Miers) Hillebr. (1888)
Cocculus longchophyllus (Miers) Hillebr.
Cocculus mokiangensis W.Y.Lien (1975)
Cocculus mollis (Miers) Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson (1872)
Cocculus nephroia DC. (1817)
Cocculus orbicularis
Cocculus orbiculatus C.K.Schneid. (1906)
Cocculus orbiculatus f. macrophyllus (Nakai) S.Y.Oh (1978)
Cocculus orbiculatus var. mollis (Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson) H.Hara (1971)
Cocculus ovalifolius Blume (1825)
Cocculus perraudi Lign. & Bey (1902)
Cocculus sarmentosus (Lour.) Diels (1910)
Cocculus sarmentosus var. linearis Yamam. (1943)
Cocculus sarmentosus var. pauciflorus Y.C.Wu (1940)
Cocculus sarmentosus var. stenophyllus Merr. (1918)
Cocculus thunbergii DC. (1817)
Cocculus triflorus DC. (1817)
Cocculus trilobus (Thunb.) DC. (1817)
Cocculus umbellatus (Vahl ex Pers.) Steud. (1840)
Cocculus virgatus Hillebr. (1888)
Ferrandia oleifera Gaudich. (1830)
Holopeira fecunda Miers (1867)
Holopeira lonchophylla Miers (1867)
Limacia kunstleri King (1889)
Menispermum hexagynum (Colebr.) Roxb. (1832)
Menispermum orbiculatum L. (1753)
Menispermum ovalifolium Pers. (1807)
Menispermum reniforme Spreng. (1825)
Menispermum triflorum (DC.) Spreng. (1825)
Menispermum trilobum Thunb. (1784)
Nephroia cuneifolia Miers (1867)
Nephroia cynanchoides Miers (1867)
Nephroia dianthera Miers (1851)
Nephroia dilatata Miers (1867)
Nephroia elegans Ridl. (1910)
Nephroia ferrandiana (Gaudich.) Miers (1851)
Nephroia hastata Miers (1867)
Nephroia hexagyna Miers (1867)
Nephroia mollis Miers (1871)
Nephroia ovalifolius Miers (1851)
Nephroia pubinervis Miers ex Benth. (1851)
Nephroia sarmentosa Lour. (1790)
Nephroia thunbergii Miers (1867)
Nephroia triloba Miers (1851)
Nephroica Miers (1851)
Nephroica ferrandiana (Gaudich.) Miers (1851)

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Indigenous

Island Status

Ni'ihau(Incl. Lehua) Indigenous
Kaua'i Indigenous
O'ahu Indigenous
Molokai Indigenous
Lana'i Indigenous
Maui Indigenous
Hawai'i Indigenous

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 148 p.7 (2020)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:921 (Ni, K, O, Mo, L, M, H [as Cocculus trilobus]); Wagner & Herbst 1995:22 (Syn. C. trilobus = C. orbiculatus); Lian et al. 2020:7 (Syn. C. orbiculatus = N. orbiculata)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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