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Schiedea menziesii

Hook. (1844)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Caryophyllaceae Genus: Schiedea

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Sprawling perennial herbs, becoming woody toward base.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes, terete (cylindrical), 4–angled or 4–ridged, stems 3–10 dm long, multi–stemmed from the base, forming clumps, the primary stems many-branched, weakly ascending to sprawling, green or purple–tinged, glabrous below, puberulent, usually densely so in the upper stems and inflorescence.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades linear to linear–lanceolate or linear–elliptic, falcate, 2–9 cm long, 0.15–1 cm wide. Apex attenuate and often recurved. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem., gradually tapering to base. Surfaces glabrous except puberulent along Upper surfaces midvein, margin and toward the base, the hairs translucent, spreading to somewhat appressed, 0.1–0.2 mm long; blades thin and membranous. Margins slightly revolute, especially toward the base. 1 or 3 principal veins, the midvein excentric. Petiolate, weakly to conspicuously connate around the stem. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence terminal, with 8–100 flowers, 2–8 (–10) cm long, laterally contracted, the branches and pedicels ascending to somewhat appressed, moderately puberulent with whitish retrorsely spreading to erect hairs 0.05–0.4 mm long; bracts green, linear to subulate, those of central axis 2–30 mm long, those of branches and flowers 1–1.5 mm long; pedicels 3–9 mm long, slender, inconspicuously flattened. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals 4–5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate and usually undulate, green, opaque, strongly reflexed and convex in the proximal ⅓, producing a small transverse bulge, the distal part concave, becoming navicular in the distal ¼, often recurved toward the apex, oriented at ca. 30° angle to the pedicel, moderately puberulent, the hairs 0.05–0.25 mm long, margins conspicuously scarious, ciliate, apex acute to obtuse. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 10; filaments subequal, 10 mm long; anthers 0.9–1 mm long, yellow. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles 3 (–4).

Fruit: Capsules 3–4.5 mm long; ovoid. Seeds ca. 0.8 mm long; orbicular–reniform; compressed; the surface transversely rugose; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = possibly 50*–52*

Habitat: Uncommon on ledges and cliffs in shrubland.

Elevation Range: 30–670 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Uncommon, probably on ledges and cliffs in dry forest and shrubland, 30-340 m, from scattered localities, Pu'ukolekole, Kamalo, and Kawela gulches, Moloka'i, Maunalei Valley, Ldna'i, and Ma'alaea,Lahaina, and Lahaina Luna Gulch, West Maui.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Hooker's Icon. Pl. 7: t. 649 (1844)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:517 (Mo, L, WM); Wagner, Weller & Sakai 2005:114 (remove Mo [re-IDed as S. sarmentosa], KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Dicranopteris linearis wet forest. With Diospyros sandwicensis, Nestegis sandwicensis, Pisonia, Cyrtandra grayi, Corprosma foliosa, Cheirodendron trigynum, Dodonaea viscosa, Polyscias oahuensis, Myrsine lanaiensis, Sophora chrysophylla Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 22833 Maui BISH 2012-04-17
2 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on rigetop in dry shrubland. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 20303 Maui BISH 2003-02-17
3 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Foothills on open ridge. Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 511 Maui BISH 1979-05-02
4 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details steep rocky ledges, NW facing slopes, shrubland; Dodonaea, Sida, Heteropogon, Lipochaeta, Bidens, Argemone, Eragrostis, Doryopteris, Plectranthus Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 50804 Maui BISH 2008-05-22
5 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Bidens; Myoporum. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. Maui BISH 1979-05-01
6 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Apsect: NW, scattered plants, on vertical walls surrounded by dry shrubland species.low elevation dry shrubland: Dodonaea viscosa, Wollastona lavarum, Achyranthes splenden var. splendens, Coleus australis, Peperoma blanda, Sicyos hispidus, Doryopteris decipiens, Bidens menziesii, Cyperus hillebrandii subsp. Dicipiens, Leucaena leucocephala, Bidens cynapiifolia, Stapelia gigantea Preserved_Specimen Pezzillo, Z. 411 Maui BISH 2023-04-13
7 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lowland Dry Shrubland at 2600 ft on a cindery west facing ridge with clumps of Rhynchelytrum repens dominating, but with some of Metrosideros, Styphelia, Bidens, Gnaphalium sandwicensium, and alien herbs and grasses Preserved_Specimen Welton, P. 1118 Maui BISH 1991-07-13
8 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Erythrina, Nototrichium, Psidium guajava, Cordyline, Abutilon, Leucaena Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 10733 Maui BISH 1989-11-10
9 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Weller, S.G. 849 Maui BISH 1987-01-01
10 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details A few small clumps of this shrub observed on steep, open, disturbed ridge. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Dodonaea, Coprosma, Nestegis, Myrsine, Leptecophylla, Vaccinium, Achyranthes, Remya, Lantana, Melinis, Ageratina. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 71108 Maui BISH 2011-07-15
11 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry; Dodonaea, Santalum ellipticum, Bidens mauiensis, Gouania hillebrandi, Osteomeles; N facing hillside and rock faces Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 330 Maui BISH 1990-05-10
12 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on steep rocky slope. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Sophora, Nestegis, Coprosma, Dodonaea, Pipturus, Achyranthes, Diospyros, Myrsine, Melicope, Pleomele, Remya, Dryopteris, Senna, Ipomoea, Neraudia, Lysimachia, Wikstroemia, Osteomeles, Trisetum, Panicum, Microlepia, Lysimachia, Eragrostis, Alyxia, Lipochaeta, Bidens, Peperomia, Ageratina, Lantana, Grevillea, Conyza, Petroselinum. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 41336 Maui BISH 2013-04-24
13 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry cliffs and ledges Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 28390 Lanai BISH 1963-08-19
14 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing on steep, sunny spur ridge. Associated vegetation: Bidens, Leptecophylla, Metrosideros, Nestegis, Myrsine, Coprosma, Remya, Pleomele, Dubautia, Doodia, Achyranthes, Lysimachia, Cocculus, Eragrostis, Panicum. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 60626 Maui BISH 2006-06-21
15 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in dry gulch north of the middle ridge. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 30014 Maui BISH 2000-03-25
16 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Aspect: N. Dozens of plants growing on vertical, N facing wall. Dry shrubland: Leucaena, Schinus, Diospyros, Eragrostis variabilis, Wollastonia lavarum, Psilotum, Adiantum, Schidea menziesii, Artemesia australis, Coleus, Pleuchea, Euphorbia, Nephrolepis brownii, Osteomeles, Dodonaea Preserved_Specimen Z. Pezzillo 1281 Lanai BISH 2025-10-17
17 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details in rock and soil, Metrosideros-Styphelia montane mesic shrubland with dubautia linearis, Bidens, Dodonaea, Eragrostis variabilis, Doryopteris, Mariscus, Lipochaeta, Pellea ternifolia, Andropogon virginicus, Erigeron, Ageratina riparia, Ageratina adenophora, Rhyncelytrum repens 200 + plants Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 14671 Maui BISH 1995-02-14
18 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details With Bidens; Myoporum. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. Maui BISH 1979-04-01
19 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In open area, in disturbed shrubland. Preserved_Specimen Brodius, C. 1 Maui BISH 2011-10-10
20 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing on a steep rocky slope along a dry, intermittent stream bed. Associated Vegetation: Dodonaea viscosa, Achyranthes splendens var. splendens, Lipochaeta lavarum, Bidens menziesii ssp. menziesii, Leucaena leucocephala, Sida fallax, Plectranthus parviflorus, Doryopteris decipiens, Heteropogon contortus. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 110150 Maui BISH 2001-11-23
21 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6822 Maui BISH 1998-02-11
22 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 342 Lanai BISH 1864-01-01
23 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 311 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
24 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 328 Lanai BISH 1914-04-11
25 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6787 Maui BISH 1998-02-09
26 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 342 Lanai BISH 1864-01-01
27 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 933 Lanai BISH 1930-02-11
28 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6827 Maui BISH 1998-02-11
29 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 342 Lanai BISH 1864-01-01
30 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 508 Lanai BISH 1930-02-11
31 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Lanai BISH 1870-01-01
32 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. Lanai BISH
33 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Menzies, A. BISH
34 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 342 Lanai BISH 1864-01-01
35 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 311 Maui BISH 1910-08-01
36 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. 181 Maui BISH
37 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 131 Lanai BISH 1914-04-11
38 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. Maui BISH 1979-05-03
39 Schiedea menziesii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Maui BISH
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