Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Habit unknown.

Stems: Stems unknown.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades elliptic, 12–16 cm long, 1.4–2.6 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Base acute, abruptly contracted into a distinct petiole. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces grayish tomentose. Margins entire. Petioles 5–8 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences unbranched, 12–15 cm long, pedicels 12–14 mm long; hypanthium hemispherical, ca. 5 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 5-lobed, lobes triangular, apex acute to acuminate, sepals connate, tube adnate to ovary. Corolla zygomorphic, dorsally cleft almost to base, the lobes spirally revolute, tube suberect. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes; anthers with apical tufts of white hairs on the lower 2, connate, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, coherent but separating after anthesis or connate and forming a tube into which pollen is shed; filaments distinct or connate above, attached to the epigynous nectary disk or to base of corolla, rarely adnate to corolla tube.

Fruit: Fruit unknown. Seeds unknown.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from the type specimen (Rémy 298; P); collected in the early 1850s on O'ahu.

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