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Melicope haupuensis

(H.St.John) 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

alani, alani kuahiwi

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees ca. 8 m tall, new growth appressed puberulent.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades ovate to elliptic–ovate, 5–13 cm long, 2.8–5.6 cm wide. Apex rounded to subacute. Base rounded or subcordate. Surfaces glabrous; blades chartaceous. Margins entire. Veins pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern. Petioles 20–50 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 5–7 in axillary cymes, sparsely appressed puberulent throughout, peduncles 2–7(–10) mm long, pedicels 1–3 mm long, bracts small, opposite. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or functionally unisexual (and then plants monoecious). Calyx of 4 sepals; Sepals of pistillate flowers deltate, ca. 2 mm long, densely appressed puberulent, imbricate. Corolla of 4 petals; petals valvate, petals of pistillate flowers oblong–deltate, ca. 3.5 mm long, puberulent, nectary disk puberulent. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, distinct, reduced but always present in functionally pistillate flowers. Ovary superior (pistillate flowers), glabrous, 1.3 mm long; style ca. 0.7 mm long, ovary 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 18–22 mm wide; of distinct follicles 9–11 mm long; exocarp and endocarp glabrous; the carpels dehiscing along the upper suture; exocarp. 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: Mixed mesic forest; ridges; slopes and near streams.

Elevation Range: 375 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Taxon 38: 120 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1189 (K [as Pelea haupuensis]); Hartley & Stone 1989:120 (COMBNOV, Syn. P. haupuensis = M. haupuensis)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In ohia - koa forest. Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1977-07-19
2 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On a ridge in thinning native mesic forest, with Metrosideros, Diospyros, Antidesma, Dodonaea, Lantana. Groundcover of Setaria gracilis with some Microlepia and Doodia. Preserved_Specimen Lau, J. 3256 Kauai BISH 1989-09-09
3 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic forest. W/ Alphitonia, Pouteria, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Antidesma, Diospyros sandwicensis, Myrsine lanaiensis, Dodonaea, Wikstroemia furcata, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Kadua affinis, Melicope ovata, M. barbige Preserved_Specimen tree, 4 m tall, trunk slender, light brown mottled with whitish lichen, with Alphitonia and Scaevola procera, 30 deg. NE aspect Wood, K.R. 14653 Kauai BISH 2011-05-11
4 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mixed mesic forest with Acacia koa, Metrosideros, Melicope barbigera, Dodonaea viscosa, Psychotria, Labordia, Xylosma crenatum, X. hawaiiense, Pittosporum, Cryptocarya mannii, Pouteria sandwicensis, Charpentiera elliptica, Claoxylon, Coprosma, Cyanea spathulata, Tetraplasandra waimeae, Bobea brevipes, Selaginella. Preserved_Specimen Tree uo to 15 ft tall. 5 - 7 trees scattered in area w/ possible hybrids. CT collected a potential M. barbigera S M. haupuensis (CT 644) in area. Leaf blade hispidulous on midrib and veins abaxially, few scattered hairs on adaxial blade. Very young lvs w/ white scruff. Lvs w/ drip tips, dull medium green. Sepals. Tangalin, N. 1865 Kauai BISH 2008-12-04
5 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In mixed mesic Metrosideros forest with Antidesma, Dodonaea, Pouteria, Pelea ovata. Preserved_Specimen Toppled tree 8 m long. Lau, J. 3272 Kauai BISH 1989-11-06
6 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Acacia koa-Metrosideros forest with Zanthoxylum dipetalum, Dodonaea viscosa, Hedyotis terminalis, Alphitonia ponderosa, Bobea brevipes, Pleomele aurea, Rubus argutus, Styphelia, Pritchardia minor. Preserved_Specimen 4 m tall, multitrunk 2 trees in flower, immature frt. Wood, K.R. 8778 Kauai BISH 2000-11-16
7 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa-Metrosideros polymorpha-Dicranopteris linearis montane mesic 90% closed canopy with Psychotria mariniana Planchonella sandwicensis, Pritchardia minor, Dodonaea viscosa, Nestegis sandwicensis, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Antidesma platyphylla, Melicope feddei Preserved_Specimen tree, 3 m tall, in early flower, north slope, low canopy Acacia 5-8 m, single tree, mapped Wood, K.R. 15105 Kauai BISH 2012-07-25
8 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic forest with Alphitonia ponderosa, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Antidesma platyphylla, Bobea brevipes, Myrsine lanaiensis, Dodonaea viscosa, Planchonella sandwicensis, Wikstroemia furcata, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Ka Preserved_Specimen Tree, 3.5 meters tall, with fruit, well branched, trunk mottled with shades of brown, 2 trees in general vicinty Wood, K.R. 16358 Kauai BISH 2015-03-12
9 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Diverse mesic forest w/ Bobea timonioides, Melicope haupuensis, M. knudsenii, Alectryon, Peucedanum, Pteralyxia. Major threats: Goats. Preserved_Specimen Tree; 4 m tall; branches diffuse and pendant. Wood, K.R. 738 Kauai BISH 1991-04-16
10 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic forest W/ Alphitonia, Planchonella, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Antidesma, Bobea brevipes, Myrsine lanaiensis, Dodonaea, Wikstroemia furcata, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Kadua affinis, Melicope ovata, M. barbigera Preserved_Specimen Tree, 7 m tall, vigorous, simple tree just above gulch bottom, north facing, mapped. Wood, K.R. 16601 Kauai BISH 2015-09-08
11 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In mesic Acacia/Dicranopteris forest with Metrosideros, Psychotria, Bobea, Dodonaea, Alphitonia. Preserved_Specimen Multi-trunked tree 4 m. tall; all branchtips with leaves opposite (none ternate). Lau, J. 3258 Kauai BISH 1989-09-10
12 Melicope haupuensis Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist rock talus Preserved_Specimen Spreading tree, ht. 8 m. MacDaniels, L.H. 746 Kauai BISH 1927-02-16
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