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Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Lamiaceae Genus: Stenogyne

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Scandent vines climbing to 1–2 m.

Stems: Stems quadrangular, pubescent in grooves.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades ovate–lanceolate, 4.2–7.7 cm long, 1.7–2.9 cm wide. Apex acute. Base obtuse to cordate. Surfaces glabrous, blades subcoriaceous, thin and membranous. Margins serrate. Petioles 5–15 mm long, glabrous or occasionally with scattered hairs. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 2–6 per verticillaster, axillary, occasionally raised on peduncles 4–8 mm long, pedicels 4–7 mm long, puberulent. Calyx radially symmetrical, narrowly campanulate, 8–15 mm long at anthesis, enlarging in fruit, glabrous, the teeth linear-lanceolate, 4.5–7 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide at base, splitting longitudinally, usually persistent or sometimes only ventral 1/2 persistent. Corolla bilabiate, tube and lobes very dark maroon, hispid externally, glandular pubescent within, tube narrowly funnelform, straight, 10–12.5 mm long, upper lip 4–8.5 mm long, entire or 2-lobed, flat or concave, lower lip 2–4 mm long, 3-lobed, the lobes flat or margins revolute, ovate, of similar size, distal portion of corolla sparsely to densely pubescent externally, the hairs simple or multicellular, occasionally glandular pubescent within, otherwise glabrous; nectary disk often present at base of ovary, annular or developed on anterior side only. Stamens 4, both pairs of similar length or upper pair slightly longer, included within corolla or well–exserted beyond upper lip; filaments inserted near throat, pubescent; anthers dithecal; anther sacs divaricate, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, each carpel longitudinally divided, placentation basal-axile; ovules 1 per ovary lobe; style 1, exserted, arising between lobes, usually cleft, diverging after anther dehiscence, shortly 2-lobed, the lobes subulate; stigmas 2.

Fruit: Nutlets 1-seeded drupaceous; bluish black at maturity; ca. 5 mm long; margins slightly winged; obliquely attached at base; included within calyx at maturity; exocarp fleshy; obovoid. Seeds with endosperm absent or scanty and oily.

Ploidy: 2n = 64*

Habitat: Occurring in diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 750–1,100 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:838 (O [as S. kaalae]); Wagner & Weller 1999:449 (now referred to as subsp. kaalae following recognition of subsp. sherffii, KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 5356 Oahu BISH 1932-04-24
2 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bennett, T. 203 Oahu BISH 1982-03-11
3 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 87666 Oahu BISH 1987-04-23
4 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12999 Oahu BISH 1940-04-28
5 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. Oahu BISH 1909-02-12
6 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 382 Oahu BISH 1990-06-29
7 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1586 Oahu BISH 1910-04-27
8 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Anderson Oahu BISH 1952-06-01
9 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen O'Connor, P.J. Oahu BISH 1982-10-10
10 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bergman, H.F. Oahu BISH 1928-02-11
11 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Krauss, N.H. Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
12 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Oahu Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. Oahu BISH
13 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pearsall, G.A. Oahu BISH 1953-09-02
14 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 5596 Oahu BISH 1932-10-23
15 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rain forest Preserved_Specimen Christophersen, E. 1580 Oahu BISH 1931-02-12
16 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Oahu BISH
17 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry, wooded Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 5399 Oahu BISH 1928-02-11
18 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details woods Preserved_Specimen climbing vine; flower dark maroon St.John, H. 14080 Oahu BISH 1934-02-04
19 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 10289 Oahu BISH 1936-02-02
20 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest, over rocks Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. Oahu BISH 1949-07-10
21 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros Preserved_Specimen leaves serrate Grant, M.L. 7465 Oahu BISH 1934-10-04
22 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist forest Preserved_Specimen vine, flower maroon purple Fosberg, F.R. 10377 Oahu BISH 1933-11-05
23 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rainy, over landslide Preserved_Specimen straggling Hillebrand, W.B. 20767 Oahu BISH 1950-08-20
24 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros lowland mesic forest with Myrsine lessertiana, Melicope, Diospyros, Freycinetia, Scaevola gaudichaudii, Dicranopteris, Labordia, Pipturus, Zanthoxylum kauaense, Psidium. Preserved_Specimen Vines with flowers and fruit. Perlman, S. 9402 Oahu BISH 1988-01-15
25 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details clearing in forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21268 Oahu BISH 1951-01-12
26 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details cloud forest, under ohia, with uluhe Preserved_Specimen 2-3' sprawling vine; flower purple to blackish Perlman, S. 5105 Oahu BISH 1987-01-15
27 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details woods Preserved_Specimen vine; flower dark madder brown St.John, H. 12923 Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
28 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rubble strewn slopes. Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 2035 Oahu BISH 1985-03-03
29 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Coprosma, Psychotria, Metrosideros Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 390 Oahu BISH 1978-07-09
30 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Slope covered with Dicranopteris in the understory and an overstory of Koa, Metrosideros, and smaller Psychotria and Bobea. Preserved_Specimen Leaves glabrous, coriaceious and paler green (also longer) than S. saalae from the Waianae Range. Flower color rosy-purple black (simlar to S. kaalae)< young stem grows vertically almost 1 m in height. Degener first collected and described this species; Obata & Fenstemacher (1994) made the second and third collections from the same popluation as the second. The second collection is without flower (only calyx) and deposited at the Smithsonian. Obata, J.K. 951 Oahu BISH 1995-02-23
31 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details bushes Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12387 Oahu BISH 1939-05-07
32 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wooded, over undergrowth Preserved_Specimen climbing vine Fosberg, F.R. 8920 Oahu BISH 1932-10-23
33 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist forest Preserved_Specimen climbing vine; flower blackish purple; fruit green, fleshy Fosberg, F.R. 10883 Oahu BISH 1935-03-31
34 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details clearing Preserved_Specimen dense tangle of intertwined stems Takeuchi, W.N. 2886 Oahu BISH 1986-10-11
35 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 10285 Oahu BISH 1936-01-19
36 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist forest Preserved_Specimen vine; fruit green, fleshy Fosberg, F.R. 13010 Oahu BISH 1936-03-22
37 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under Metrosideros Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 85547 Oahu BISH 1985-05-26
38 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details shade of shrubs Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 1909 Oahu BISH 1970-11-07
39 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 11564 Oahu BISH 1937-12-19
40 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forested Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 10840 Oahu BISH 1936-02-02
41 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Phyllostegia, Straussia, Wikstroemia Preserved_Specimen 4' running shrub Pearsall, G.A. 511 Oahu BISH 1960-05-19
42 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 5358 Oahu BISH 1932-06-26
43 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2-4' long vine; flower salverform, brown purple Pearsall, G.A. 518 Oahu BISH 1960-06-03
44 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 10841 Oahu BISH 1936-05-12
45 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Under a windswept canopy of Metrosideros; Syzygium; Pittosporum; Xylosma; Psychotria. Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 538 Oahu BISH 1990-06-16
46 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details grassy, shrubby windy slope Preserved_Specimen compact tangle Degener, O. 20979 Oahu BISH 1950-10-22
47 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet forest Preserved_Specimen Furmidge, G. Oahu BISH 1933-01-08
48 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details ohia woods Preserved_Specimen vine, 3-6 m long; stem and petioles purplish St.John, H. 22571 Oahu BISH 1947-02-16
49 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under Metrosideros and Pittosporum cauliflorum; moist, mossy Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 349 Oahu BISH 1978-03-05
50 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under Metrosideros, Styphelia, Viola, introduced grasses; dry Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 289 Oahu BISH 1976-01-18
51 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details ohia, koa, Myrsine, Bidens Preserved_Specimen vining, purple flowers Perlman, S. 5235 Oahu BISH 1987-02-22
52 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wooded Preserved_Specimen vine, climbing 2 m over bushes; fruit black St.John, H. 17600 Oahu BISH 1935-03-31
53 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen fruit Stone, B.C. 3308 Oahu BISH 1960-03-26
54 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen climbing 15' in trees St.John, H. 11631 Oahu BISH 1932-05-08
55 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1586 Oahu BISH 1910-04-27
56 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wawra, H. 2258 Oahu BISH
57 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 12999 Oahu BISH 1940-04-28
58 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Selling, O. 3575 Oahu BISH 1938-09-25
59 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen flower purple Wilbur, R.L. 666 Oahu BISH 1948-04-18
60 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 5596 Oahu BISH 1932-10-23
61 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. Oahu BISH 1976-10-17
62 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. Oahu BISH 1909-02-12
63 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pearsall, G.A. Oahu BISH 1953-09-02
64 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bergman, H.F. Oahu BISH 1928-01-01
65 Stenogyne kaalae subsp. kaalae Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Dicranopteris-dominated understory; canopy of Acacia - Grevillea - Metrosideros Preserved_Specimen Scandent herb, solitary Takeuchi, W.N. 2 Oahu BISH 1983-10-02
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