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Sicyos herbstii

(H.St.John) I.Telford (1989)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Cucurbitales Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Sicyos

‘ānunu [anunu]

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Climbing annual herbs.

Stems: Stems up to several m long, glabrate.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades broadly ovate with a basal sinus, 3.5–7 cm long, 5–10 cm wide, shallowly palmately 5–7–lobed. Lobes acute or acuminate, the central lobe long-acuminate, the narrow apex often breaking. Upper surfaces hispid with simple white hairs; lower surfaces glandular pubescent on main veins. Margins lobed, lobes denticulate. Petioles 2–4 cm long, glandular pubescent. Stipules absent; tendrils in the stipular position 2–4–branched.

Flowers: Flowers in staminate flowers in panicles 5–12-cm long, peduncles 4–9 cm long, glandular pubescent, pedicels 3–6 mm long, short–hispid; pistillate flowers 6–9 per head, peduncles 0.5–1 cm long, glandular pubescent, subsessile or on pedicels up to 1 mm long. Flowers usually unisexual (and the plants monoecious or dioecious), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, inserted on hypanthium. Corolla of staminate flowers greenish yellow, 5-lobed, 4–7 mm in diameter, petals inserted on hypanthium alternate with calyx lobes, usually connate at base, the limb often rotate; Corolla of pistillate flowers 5-lobed perianth usually smaller than in staminate flowers. Stamens in staminate flowers (2)3(–5), inserted at base of hypanthium; filaments connate into a column; anthers curved or flexuous, coherent and twisted in a head, opening by longitudinal slits; pistillate flowers: staminodes absent. Ovary inferior, of a single carpel or 3-carpellate with carpels connate into a single 3-lobed cell; ovule 1, placentation parietal; stigma capitate, shortly 3-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit pale brown; ovoid; 5–7 mm long; 3–4 mm in diameter; 5–ridged; the ridges bearing a few spreading outgrowths 1–2 mm long; pilose with multicellular hairs; reticulate–hispid between ridges; indehiscent. Seeds 1 per fruit; ovate; endosperm absent.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurring in shrub communities on clay loam. A single collection from Moloka'i may also represent this species.

Elevation Range: 0–500 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic
Molokai Not in flora

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Phytologia 67: 210 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:575 (K, Mo? [single disjunct spm.]); Faccenda, Arthur, et al. 2025:168 (remove Mo? [spm. not located, assumed re-IDed])

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Sicyos herbstii Waimea district, Queen's Pond area of Barking Sands Vine growing over Leucaena shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
2 Sicyos herbstii Waimea, Port Elizabeth State Park in Leucaena and Prosopis and trailing over other plants; with Lycopersicon and Nicandra Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 3286 Kauai BISH 1989-03-07
3 Sicyos herbstii Waimea district, Queen's Pond area of Barking Sands Vine growing over Leucaena shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
4 Sicyos herbstii Waimea district, Queen's Pond area of Barking Sands Vine growing over Leucaena shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
5 Sicyos herbstii Polihale State Park behind last picnic area over Leucaena Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 800 Kauai BISH 1984-03-13
6 Sicyos herbstii Waimea District. Polihale, Puu Ka Pele Forest Reserve, on E side of main access road near the end (past boundary for Polihale State Park) Coastal Dry Shrubland-Koa Haole Shrubland w/ Cenchrus ciliaris, Leucaena leucocephala Preserved_Specimen Williams, A. 44 Kauai BISH 2014-03-07
7 Sicyos herbstii Fort Elizabeth, Waimea Dry lowland. Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 168 Kauai BISH 1977-02-24
8 Sicyos herbstii Polihale cliffs Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 326 Kauai BISH 1979-03-14
9 Sicyos herbstii Waimea District. Polihale State Park, off Lower Saki Mana Road, across from Camp8ing Area 4 Coastal Strand Coastal Strand w/ Abutilon grandifolium, Myoporum, Leucaena leucocephala, Scaevola taccada, Prosopis pallida, Megathyrsus maximus, Cenchrus, Stachytarpheta Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 3732 Kauai BISH 2014-03-14
10 Sicyos herbstii Polihale State Park, off of raod to Queens Pond, past monkeypos tree. Leucaena strand shrubland W/ Leucaena leucocephala, Pluchea, Scaevola taccade, Prosopis pallida, Megathyrsus maximus, Castor Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 3729 Kauai BISH 2014-03-14
11 Sicyos herbstii Polihale cliffs Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 326 Kauai BISH 1979-03-14
12 Sicyos herbstii Barking Sands Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
13 Sicyos herbstii Polihale cliffs Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 326 Kauai BISH 1979-03-14
14 Sicyos herbstii Waimea District. Russian Fort along Hwy. 50, southeast of Waimea Preserved_Specimen Gustafson, R. 3575 Kauai BISH 1989-03-06
15 Sicyos herbstii Polihale cliffs Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 326 Kauai BISH 1979-03-14
16 Sicyos herbstii Waimea Canyon, Koaie branch Climbing over Lantana in floor of gulch containing remnant native forest with Hibiscus waimeae, Alectryon, Bobea timonioides, Zanthoxylum. Preserved_Specimen Bishop, L.E. 1316 Kauai BISH 1972-06-03
17 Sicyos herbstii Waimea, Fort Elizabeth Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. Kauai BISH 1976-05-19
18 Sicyos herbstii Polihale State Park behind last picnic area over Leucaena Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 800 Kauai BISH 1984-03-13
19 Sicyos herbstii Waimea district, Queen's Pond area of Barking Sands Vine growing over Leucaena shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
20 Sicyos herbstii Waimea district, Queen's Pond area of Barking Sands Vine growing over Leucaena shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
21 Sicyos herbstii Waimea, Makaweli, W of Russian Fort over Prosopis Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5688 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
22 Sicyos herbstii Waimea district, Queen's Pond area of Barking Sands Vine growing over Leucaena shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 5691 Kauai BISH 1976-02-26
23 Sicyos herbstii Below Canyon Rd. Relic Dodonaea shrubland. W/ Bidens sandwicensis, Melanthera connata, Sida fallax, Sicyos herbstii, Schiedea spergulina, Spermolepis hawaiiensis, Heteropogon contortus, Panicum konaense, Doryopteris decora Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 14614 Kauai BISH 2011-04-20
24 Sicyos herbstii Waimea Canyon, Koaie branch Climbing over Lantana in floor of gulch containing remnant native forest with Hibiscus waimeae, Alectryon, Bobea timonioides, Zanthoxylum. Preserved_Specimen Bishop, L.E. 1316 Kauai BISH 1972-06-03
25 Sicyos herbstii Waimea Canyon, Koaie branch Climbing over Lantana in floor of gulch containing remnant native forest with Hibiscus waimeae, Alectryon, Bobea timonioides, Zanthoxylum. Preserved_Specimen Bishop, L.E. 1316 Kauai BISH 1972-06-03
26 Sicyos herbstii Below water tank near Kapaula Heiau, Polihale Found sparingly below water tank near Kapaula Heiau. Vine in roadside shrubbery. Preserved_Specimen Hume, L. 288 Kauai BISH 1988-01-17
27 Sicyos herbstii Waimea: Fort Elizabeth Dry lowlands. Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 329 Kauai BISH 1979-04-15
28 Sicyos herbstii Waimea: Fort Elizabeth Dry lowlands. Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 329 Kauai BISH 1979-04-15
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