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Cyrtandra kamoolaensis

H.St.John (1987)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Gesneriaceae Genus: Cyrtandra

ha‘iwale, kanawao ke‘oke‘o

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrub ca. 2 m tall.

Stems: Stems rounded to angular, pubescent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades elliptic, 9–15 cm long x 4–8 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Base cuneate above and below. Surfaces puberulous. Margins entire or toothed. Petioles 1–4.5 cm long, pubescent, base sometimes clasping the stem or perfoliate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1 to numerous in cymes 4–5 cm long, usually in the upper leaf axils, pedunculate or sessile, peduncles with minute to large and foliaceous, distinct or occasionally connate bracts, those of pedicels smaller. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 2–5(6)-lobed, 23–28 mm long, pubescent, lobes 21–25 mm long, oblanceolate, deciduous or persistent in fruit. Corolla 25–27 mm long, pubescent. Stamens 5, inserted about halfway up corolla tube, the 2 upper Stamens fertile, others staminodial, +/– with abortive anthers; fertile anthers coherent positioned in throat of corolla tube, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits or occasionally by apical pores. Ovary superior, oblong–ovoid, 2-carpellate, 1-celled, placentation parietal, placentas 2, ± intruded, rarely joined in center and dividing ovary into 2 cells; ovules numerous, anatropous, pubescent or glabrous, apex rounded or with a stylar beak; style present or absent; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, lobes usually elliptic.

Fruit: Fruit a fleshy or firm berry; ovoid; ellipsoid to cylindrical; occasionally subglobose; often tipped by the persistent stylar beak. Seeds numerous; ellipsoid; minute; usually less than ca. 1 mm long; the surface reticulate.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Phytologia 63: 499 (1987)

Other References

St. John 1987f:499 (SPNOV/K, DESCR); Wagner et al. 1990:739 (accepted as a valid species, but not given full treatment due to publication deadline [as C. kamooloaensis]); IPNI 2025 (spelling change to kamoolaensis)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Windswept shrubland and patches of lowland wet forest Preserved_Specimen tree, 2 m tall, single stem, fruit orange, uncommon Wood, K.R. 14534 Kauai BISH 2011-02-24
2 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Closed Metrosideros lowland wet forest, 8-12 m canopy, surrounded by steep valley walls with Dicranopteris and mixed shrubs. Understory dominated by Antidesma w/ Syzygium, Broussaisia, Perrottetia, Cyrtandra spp, Psychotria spp, Dubautia spp, Laboria spp, Coprosma waimeae, Cheirodendron spp, Polyscias kavaiensis, P. oahuen Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1.5 m tall, leaves dark green above, paler below, calyx light green, fruit 3.5 cm long x 1.7 cm wide, white, occasional with C. oenobarba, C. kealiae. Wood, K.R. 15928 Kauai BISH 2014-04-23
3 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lowland wet ohia forest: Metrosideros polymorpha, Pisonia umbellifera, Polyscias oahuensis, Sphaeropteris cooperi, Angiopteris evecta, Spathodea campanulata, Miconia crenata, Cyrtandra kamoolaensis, C. confertiflora, Psychotr... Preserved_Specimen Group of one to several plants in shaded forest understory, along modest slope of upper stream bank. Approximately 1 m tall, much branched from a decumbant lower stem. Flowers white, calyx lobes green, foliaceous, arising singly from axils as opposite pairs in upper parts of stems. Leaves medium green above, much lighte... A.M. Williams 860 Kauai BISH 2024-03-14
4 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest with Psychotria, Eugenia, Metrosideros, Gouldia, Pisonia, Urticaceae. Preserved_Specimen Shrub 2 m. tall, broad, bushy. Christensen, C. 70 Kauai BISH 1976-10-23
5 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Highly disturbed forest of Metrosideros, Pisonia umbellifera, Psidium guajava, Syzygium sandwicensis, and Dicranopteris on slopes. Preserved_Specimen Stems rooting when in contact with the ground. Wagner, W.L. 6301 Kauai BISH 1990-06-09
6 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros polymorpha, Antidesma, Syzygium, Broussaisia, Boehmeria, Perrottetia, pteridophytes, Cyanea Preserved_Specimen 2 m shrub, pubescence brown, leaves discolorus; calyx green, corolla white Lorence, D.H. 7338 Kauai BISH 1993-01-29
7 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros open forest 2-10% cover @ 7-10 m tall. W/ mixed understory 30% cover @ 2-5 m tall w/ Kadua affinis, Psychotria mariniana, Syzygium sandwicensis, Melicope wawrana, M. feddei, M. clusiifolia, Scaevola procera, Broussaisia arguta, and 30-70% Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1.5 m tall, few branched, occasional Wood, K.R. 12003 Kauai BISH 2006-08-08
8 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest. Preserved_Specimen Shrub, Ht 2 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 646 Kauai BISH 1926-02-11
9 Cyrtandra kamoolaensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros, Pisonia, Psidium, Albizia, Dicranopteris, Lantana, Broussaisia, Diplazium Preserved_Specimen 4' shrub; leaves dark dull green above, dull, grayish green below; fruit white Flynn, T.W. 3314 Kauai BISH 1989-04-07
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