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Pritchardia beccariana

Rock (1916)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Monocots Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Genus: Pritchardia

hāwane, loulu, wāhane

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Tree to 20 m tall. The large, spherical crown typically contains about twenty–five to thirty ascending, spreading to drooping leaves.

Stems: Smooth, grayish trunk 20–30 cm in diameter.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Spirally arranged. Blades rounded and shallowly divided only about one-fourth into many stiff-tipped segments 1.8 m wide and long; nearly flat blades held on equally long leaf stalks, the latter moderately covered along both edges at the base in medium tan fibers. Surfaces rich green above and mostly green below but with a few tan scales or glabrate, not waxy or glaucous. Epidermis darkening considerably on drying. Veins parallel. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences longer than the petioles, ca. 150 cm long with up to five long primary branches that nearly equal the leaf stalks in length. Panicles ca. 30 cm long, 2–branched, individual axes 5–6 cm long, glabrous, terete (cylindrical), zigzag–sinuous between the alternate, rather distant flowers; rachillae villous-lepidote; prophyll and peduncular bracts rigid, covered with fugacious, silvery or brownish paleae, finally almost glabrous. Flowers bisexual (perfect), sessile. Calyx cupular, shallowly 3-lobed, prominently nerved or smooth when dry. Corolla of 3 petals, adnate basally to the staminal filament tube to about the height of the calyx, the distinct lobes valvate in bud, caducous as the flower expands, prominently pocketed and furrowed within, prominently nerved when dry. Stamens 6; filaments flattened, thickish, connate basally into a tube equaling or exceeding the calyx and surrounding the carpels, then distinct and abruptly subulate, not inflexed at apex; anthers erect in bud, dorsifixed, spreading–erect to versatile at anthesis, oblong in outline, bifid basally nearly to the point of insertion, apex emarginate, the connective narrow; anther sacs longitudinally and laterally dehiscent. Ovary superior; carpels 3, normally only 1 maturing, coherent only basally; ovules 1 per carpel, with the broad–based styles connate above into a trigonous column tapering to a shallowly trifid stigma; ovules anatropous, erect, attached at the base of the placenta.

Fruit: Fruit somewhat variable in shape; ovoid to globose; apparently usually not quite symmetrical; 3–3.5 cm long; 2.5–3 cm in diameter. When heavily laden; the fruit stalks hang down below the leaves; often resting against the skirt of old; persistent dead leaves. Seeds distinct from endocarp except at the hilum; shiny; endosperm homogeneous except for a shallow invagination of the seed coat below the raphe; embryo lateral near the base opposite the raphe.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Found in wet forests on the eastern slopes of Kīlauea.

Elevation Range: 1,100–1,270 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 43: 386 (1916)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1369 (H); Staples & Herbst 2005:625 (KEY); Hodel 2007:S-11/Hodel 2012:73 (KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dense jungle of tall trees. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9716 Hawaii BISH 1929-06-28
2 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12799 Hawaii BISH 1917-08-01
3 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12799 Hawaii BISH 1917-08-01
4 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12959 Hawaii BISH 1917-09-01
5 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12799 Hawaii BISH 1917-08-01
6 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12959 Hawaii BISH 1917-09-01
7 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12799 Hawaii BISH 1917-08-01
8 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Hawaii BISH 1915-08-01
9 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12799 Hawaii BISH 1917-08-01
10 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12799 Hawaii BISH 1917-08-01
11 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 36543650 Hawaii BISH 1909-01-01
12 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 10356 Hawaii BISH 1914-12-23
13 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Virgin montane rainforest now being destroyed as part of a Forestry program; Metrosideros collina canopy; 2nd story Cibotium spp. (3), with rich fern flora, Selaginella, Cyrtandra, Cheirodendron trigynum, scattered Pritchardia beccariana var. giffardiana groves, Tetraplasandra, Pelea, etc. Preserved_Specimen Iltis, H.H. 105 Hawaii BISH 1967-06-21
14 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hawaii BISH
15 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros forest Preserved_Specimen Little Jr., E.L. 31057 Hawaii BISH 1976-08-16
16 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dense jungle of tall trees. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9717 Hawaii BISH 1929-06-24
17 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dense jungle of tall trees. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9716 Hawaii BISH 1929-06-28
18 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Forest Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 10356 Hawaii BISH 1914-12-23
19 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Common along road in rain forest of Metrosideros, Cibotium, Coprosma, etc. Preserved_Specimen Henrickson, J.S. 4133 Hawaii BISH 1969-08-07
20 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Common along road in rain forest of Metrosideros, Cibotium, Coprosma, etc. Preserved_Specimen Henrickson, J.S. 4133 Hawaii BISH 1969-08-07
21 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dense jungle of tall trees. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9716 Hawaii BISH 1929-06-28
22 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Metrosideros & Cibotium forest. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22370 Hawaii BISH 1946-12-24
23 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dense jungle of tall trees. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9716 Hawaii BISH 1929-06-28
24 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Forest Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 10356 Hawaii BISH 1914-12-23
25 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Metrosideros & Cibotium forest. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22370 Hawaii BISH 1946-12-24
26 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Metrosideros & Cibotium forest. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22370 Hawaii BISH 1946-12-24
27 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Singly & in small groves in dense forest. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21797 Hawaii BISH 1952-02-05
28 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Metrosideros & Cibotium forest. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22370 Hawaii BISH 1946-12-24
29 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Forest Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 10356 Hawaii BISH 1914-12-23
30 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Common along road in rain forest of Metrosideros, Cibotium, Coprosma, etc. Preserved_Specimen Henrickson, J.S. 4133 Hawaii BISH 1969-08-07
31 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dense jungle of tall trees. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 9717 Hawaii BISH 1929-06-24
32 Pritchardia beccariana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Inside forest. Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Hawaii BISH
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