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Cheirodendron dominii

Krajina (1931)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Araliaceae Genus: Cheirodendron

‘ōlapa [olapa], lapalapa

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees or shrubs 2–7 m tall; secretory canals present in most parts.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (palmate). Opposite. Leaflets 3, very broadly ovate to depressed–ovate or subreniform, 3–6 cm long and usually wider. Apex acute to nearly truncate, apiculate. Base truncate to obtuse. Blades thin, coriaceous, chartaceous when dry. midvein, margins, petiolule, and petiole usually tinged purple, petiolule often laterally compressed. Margins caudate–dentate, almost spiny in appearance, the 3–8 teeth per side pointing out, with an upcurved tip, more than 1 mm long. Veins not raised on upper surface. Petioles base often broad and sheathing the stem. Petioles 5.5–8 cm long. Petiolules of leaflets 3–4.5 cm long, laterally compressed. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal, erect, oppositely branched panicles of umbellules. Inflorescences 5–9.5 cm long. Bracts minute, subconnate, persistent, forming an involucel below the umbellules and pseudocalyx below each flower; pedicels jointed below the ovary. Pedicels 2–5 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect) and functionally staminate (the plants andromonoecious). Calyx of 5 short, basally connate teeth. Corolla of 5(6) petals, buds dark purple, purple externally, greenish within, valvate, caducous, triangular to ovate or oblong, apex inflexed. Stamens usually as many as and alternate with the petals, sometimes numerous, distinct, inserted at the edge of the epigynous nectary disk; 5, pale yellow, spreading. Ovary inferior, (2)3–4(5)-carpellate, carpels connate (rarely pseudomonomerous), with as many cells; ovules pendulous, 2 per cell, 1 abortive; styles as many as carpels, 1–1.5 mm long, connate to form a blunt, conical stylopodium surmounted by the circular stigmas.

Fruit: Drupes green; ripening dark purple; exocarp fleshy; globose; or laterally compressed and orbicular or oblate to ovoid or obovoid; 3–7.5 mm long; pyrenes cartilaginous; laterally compressed; as many as styles. [Gaudichaud–Beaupé; 1830; Gray; 1854a; Heller; 1897; Herat; 1981; Hochreutiner; 1925; Krajina; 1931; Leveille; 1911a; St. John; 1959; Seemann; 1864–1868; Sherff; 1951c; 1952a; 1954a; 1962]; subglobose; weakly (2)3–4(5)–sided (strongly ribbed when dry); 4–5 mm long (including styles). Seeds 1 per pyrene; embryo small.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurring in wet forest.

Elevation Range: 1,525–1,550 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Apparently quite rare. Cheirodendron dominii has leaves very similar to those of C. fauriei and an ovary and fruit like those of C. platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense. Nevertheless, while all 3 taxa are restricted to Kaua‘i, C. dominii<
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Preslia 10: 94 (1931)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:226 (K)

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 Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron short statured wet forest with open bog habitat dissected by headwater drainages w/ genera such as Melicope, Myrsine, Dubautia, Cheirodendron, Metrosideros, Coprosma, Labordia, Psychotria, Vaccinium, and Kadua, fern genera include Asplenium, Adenophorus, Dryopteris, Sadleria, El Preserved_Specimen Tree, 7 m tall, fully branched stems gray-brown, glossy green leaves with purple margins, common. Wood, K.R. 16252 Kauai BISH 2015-01-21
2 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest patches and open bogs Machaerina angustifolia, Labordia waialeale, Metrosideros waialeale, Bidens forbesii, Plantago pachyphylla, Cheirodendron domini, Coprosma elliptica, Peperomia, Myrsine lessertiana, Deschampsia, Vacci Preserved_Specimen Tree 20 ft ht with fruit Perlman, S. 24308 Kauai BISH
3 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details NE Alakai, forest, bogs, and drainages. Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest, bogs and riparian habitat w/ Broussaisia arguta, Dubautia paleata, Labordia waialealae, L. pumila, Polyscias waialealae, Vaccinum calycinum, Pipturus ruber, Deschampsia rubigena, Machaerina angustifolia, Melicope clusiifolia. Preserved_Specimen Tree, 3 m tall, leaves glossy medium green, costa and secondary nerves yellow-green, w/ flowers green-yellow, anthers white, fruit purple, common throughout bogs and adjacent forests. Wood, K.R. 19271 Kauai BISH 2023-01-13
4 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest w/ bogs and windward steep saturated walls of basalt. Preserved_Specimen Tree 4 m tall. w/ fluttering leaves; leaves dark green on (upper) surface, paler below; margins red; veins yellow; petiole red-green; peduncle red-purple. Wood, K.R. 3549 Kauai BISH 1994-09-19
5 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Open shrubbery Preserved_Specimen tree 2-4 m tall. Petioles and petiolules dark purple, orange nr their junction. Leaflets glossy olive green, margins and mid-rib red (sometimes). Fruits blackish wine-red. van Royen, P. 11723 Kauai BISH 1977-09-03
6 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details in bog Preserved_Specimen DLNR staff Kauai BISH 1982-10-10
7 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bog margin Preserved_Specimen Small tree Medeiros, A.C. 506 Kauai BISH 1983-09-01
8 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rolling hills with bogs, stream drainages, and steep perimeter rim, Metrosideros windswept shrubland few canopy trees of Cheirodendron & Metrosideros -w/ Dubautia laxa, D. plaeata, Melicope clusiifolia, M. waialealae, M. kavaiensis, M. wawraeana, M. cruciata, Dicranopteris linearis, Sticherus owhy Preserved_Specimen tree, 5 m tall, moderately branched, petioles and leaf margins purple-red, common with C. fauriei, C. platyphyllum Wood, K.R. 8158 Kauai BISH 2000-02-01
9 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Montane bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. W/ mixed sedges and grasses including Rhynchospora chinensis, R. rugosa lavarum, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, herbs of Plantago pachyphylla, Viola shrubs of Metrosideros, Dubau Preserved_Specimen Dubrau tree, 2 - 4 m tall alongh ridge, frt purple-black, common. Wood, K.R. 12284 Kauai BISH 2007-03-06
10 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 3053 Kauai BISH 1938-08-23
11 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 3376 Kauai BISH 1991-07-19
12 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Huber, H.F.J. 22 Kauai BISH 1964-08-21
13 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8869 Kauai BISH 1911-10-20
14 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1916-10-01
15 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Low, wet elfin cloud forest of Metrosideros spp., Cheirodendron, & Pelea spp. trees covered by bryophytes, interspersed with low shrubland of Metrosideros, Myrsine, and Vaccinium, and open boggy areas w/native herbs [SEE COMMENT]. Preserved_Specimen Small tree 3 m. tall, leaflets trembling in wind. Fruits & inflorescence dark purple. Locally abundant, endemic. Lorence, D.H. 6022 Kauai BISH 1988-06-17
16 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis wet forest. With Cheirodendron trigynum, Ilex anomala, Melicope clusifolia, Machaerina angustifolia, Cibotium, Clermontia fauriei, Trematolobelia kauaiensis, Vaccinium calycinum, Dubautia laxa, Hedychium Preserved_Specimen tree 7 m ht with flowers, fruit Perlman, S. 23056 Kauai BISH 2012-10-19
17 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details mixed wet forest with matting ferns, riparian vegetation, bogs and pseudo-bogs Vaccinium calycinum, Leptecophylla tameamea, Melicope clusiifolia, Broussaisia arguta, Coprosma elliptica, Kadua affinis, Dianella sandwicensis, Dubautia paleata, Peperomia hesperomannii, Cibotium gla Preserved_Specimen tree, 5 m tall, trunk with raised lenticels, petioles, peduncles and fruit purple to purple-black, along stream bank near waterfall, common Wood, K.R. 14871 Kauai BISH 2012-02-07
18 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa- Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis mesic- wet forest. With Cheirodendron spp., Scaevola procera, Bobea brevipes, Dodonaea viscosa, Ilex anomala, Coprosma kauaensis, Psychotria greenwelliae, Santalum f.v. pyrularium Preserved_Specimen Tree 10 meter ht with fruit Perlman, S. 23046 Kauai BISH 2012-10-11
19 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Montane wet forest with 60% cover of Metrosideros at 9 m tall and 30% cover of Cheirodendron at 7 m tall, diverse understory with Melicope clusiifolia, M. wawrana, Vaccinium calycinum, Broussaisia arguta, Trematolobelia kauaiensis, Lobelia hypoleuca, rich fern understory with Athyrium microphyllum, Sadleria pallida, Asplenium polyodon, abundant terrestrial and epiphytic moss. Preserved_Specimen Tree 4 m tall, moderately branched stems brown or with yellow-brown tinge, lvs glossy medium green with yellow-green costa, fls immature purple, occasional with Cheirodendron fauriei. Wood, K.R. 11522 Kauai BISH 2005-09-09
20 Cheirodendron dominii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of Ohia/Kuolohia/Oreobolus (Metrosideros polymorpha var. pumilla / Rhynchospora chinensis subsp. spiciformis / Oreobolus furcatus). Mixed bog Metrosideros polymorpha var. Pumilla, Cibotium glaucum, C. menziesii, Leptecophyllum tameiameiae, Coprosma elliptica, Rhynchospora chinensis subsp. spiciformis, Kadua affinis, Melicope feddei, Dicranop... Preserved_Specimen Tree, single trunk, round head, ca. 4 m tall with flowers and immature and mature fruits present. Fruits dark green to purple, 4 carpels and seeds in each. Tree is just inside of fenceline on Northwest side of bog growing in full sun, the only one of its kind observed within fence. A.M. Williams 836 Kauai BISH 2023-10-03
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