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Pritchardia hillebrandii

Becc. (1890)

This name is accepted

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

hāwane, loulu, loulu lelo, wāhane

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Medium-sized palms.

Stems: Trunk 6–7 m tall.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Spirally arranged. Blades rather rigid and thick. Surfaces glaucous to pale green, lower surface ± with a few scattered, pale–colored, minute scales. Veins parallel. Petioles very densely covered with a felted, ashy–silvery indumentum, which extends profusely from underside of petiole onto blade and along ridges of segment folds. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences about as long as or even shorter than the petioles, 60–100 cm long, of 3 distinct, loose panicles, these on a common, rather slender, peduncular part; rachillae rigid, thickish; prophyll and peduncular bracts thin and chartaceous, more or less fugaciously silvery lepidote, becoming glabrate with weathering. 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 yellowish or reddish brown; becoming intensely bluish or nearly black; globose; 2–2.2 cm long; 1– 2 mm wider than long; apex with the persistent sterile carpels and style; and marked by 2 pronounced ridges descending from the apex; the surface highly polished at maturity; endocarp very thin; woody; brittle. Seeds globose; 11–13 mm in diameter; 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: Occurring on cliffs in mesic to wet areas; windward coast of Moloka'i.

Elevation Range: 30–600 m.

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Ethnobotanical Images

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Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Only found in cultivation
O'ahu Only found in cultivation
Molokai Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Malesia 3: 292 (1890)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1370 (Mo); Staples & Herbst 2005:625 (KEY), 626 (DESCR); Hodel 2007:S-18/Hodel 2012:91 (KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12005 Oahu BISH 1910-01-01
2 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12005 Oahu BISH 1910-01-01
3 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12007 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
4 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12005 Oahu BISH 1910-01-01
5 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12002 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
6 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12007 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
7 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12005 Oahu BISH 1910-01-01
8 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12002 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
9 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Krajina, V.J. 6277 Oahu BISH 1962-02-10
10 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12002 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
11 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12007 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
12 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12002 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
13 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 210 Kauai BISH 1989-05-03
14 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12005 Oahu BISH 1910-01-01
15 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12014 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
16 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
17 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 8028 Kauai BISH 1999-11-08
18 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Krajina, V.J. 6277 Oahu BISH 1962-02-10
19 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12014 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
20 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12007 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
21 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12007 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
22 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12007 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
23 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12002 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
24 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
25 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
26 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
27 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
28 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
29 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
30 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
31 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
32 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
33 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17345 Molokai BISH 1920-01-01
34 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Landgraf, M.F. Oahu BISH 1952-06-06
35 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
36 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
37 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
38 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
39 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
40 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Krajina, V.J. 6286 Oahu BISH 1962-02-10
41 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 12014 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
42 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
43 Pritchardia hillebrandii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Molokai BISH 1920-02-01
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