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Schiedea globosa

H.Mann (1866)

This name is accepted

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

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Subdioecious subshrubs, weakly woody only at base.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes, terete (cylindrical), 4–angled or –ridged, 0.5–3 (–10) dm long, usually thick and somewhat succulent, prostrate to ascending, forming clumps, internodes 0.3–2 (–7) cm long, the 1 or 2 below inflorescence elongated to 7–10.5 cm long, yellowish green, glabrous proximally, puberulent or glandular–puberulent on the distal stems and inflorescence.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades linear or linear–elliptic to linear–subulate, occasionally elliptic–oblanceolate, falcate, 3–14 (–16) cm long, 0.3–1.5 (–2.5) cm wide. Apex long-attenuate. Base tapering and connate at the node. Surfaces glabrous; recurved, succulent–coriaceous, glossy. Margins entire and inconspicuously revolute. 1– or 3– or 5-veined, the midrib more prominent than lateral veins when present. Petiolate, weakly to conspicuously connate around the stem. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in hermaphroditic flowers occurring occasionally intermixed in staminate inflorescences, numbers varying with site and moisture. inflorescence terminal, with 69–460 flowers, 1–4 cm long, very congested, head-like, sometimes to 15 cm with 1–2 pairs of additional lateral clusters at the next lower nodes, these somewhat smaller than the terminal dichasia, the staminate inflorescence ( occasionally with some hermaphroditic flowers intermixed) less congested and fewer–flowered than the pistillate inflorescence, moderately puberulent or in some populations glandular–puberulent throughout, the hairs erect, translucent, 0.15–0.25 mm long, with or without a small glandular apex; bracts of central axis 2–10 (–30) mm long, those of branches and flowers 1–3 mm long. Flowers subdioecious. bisexual (perfect) flowers similar to staminate flowers except ovary and styles functioning. Calyx of staminate flowers with sepals 2.5–3.3 mm long, ovate, green or tinged purple toward the apex, opaque, reflexed and convex at the base, producing a small transverse bulge, broadly navicular oriented at 100° to 120° angle to the pedicel, moderately puberulent or in some populations glandular–puberulent, the hairs 0.05–0.25 mm long, margins conspicuously scarious, entire, glabrous, apex obtuse. Calyx of pistillate flowers: sepals 2.5–3 mm long, ovate, green or tinged purple toward the apex, opaque, reflexed and convex at the base, producing a small transverse bulge, deeply navicular, oriented at 100° to 130° angle to the pedicel, moderately puberulent or in some populations glandular–puberulent, the hairs 0.05–0.25 mm long, margins conspicuously scarious, entire, glabrous or with scattered hairs externally, apex obtuse. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens in staminate flowers 10 (–11); filaments subequal, 3.5–4.5 mm long; anthers 0.8–1.3 mm long, yellow. Pistillate flowers: Stamens (9–) 10 (–11 ), vestigial; filaments unequal, but alternate whorl always shorter than the antisepalous whorl, 0.6–1.5 mm anthers 0.2–0.3 mm long, yellow, not producing pollen. Ovary superior (pistillate flowers), 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles 3–6. Staminate flowers: styles 3–6, green, short and non–functional, becoming shriveled.

Fruit: Capsules 2–4.5 mm long; narrowly ovoid. Seeds 0.7–0.8 mm long; relatively few; orbicular–reniform; compressed; the faces transversely rugose; the margins papillose; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy: 2n = 44*–46*

Habitat: Scattered to locally common on steep; north–facing rocky slopes or cliffs in coastal habitats.

Elevation Range: 0–460 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Endemic
Molokai Endemic
Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic
Hawai'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • 0-300 m
  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • The separation of Schiedea rernyi from S. globosa was based primarily on the occasional presence of parallel lateral nerves. This feature is largely an ecological vafiation dependent on the width of the leaves, which vary according to particular moisture regimes. However, plants on O'ahu do usually have broader leaves. Artificial fertile hybrids have been made between S. globosa and S. verticillato

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 10: 311 (1866)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:512 (O, Mo, EM, WM); Herbst & Wagner 1999:18 (H); Wagner, Weller & Sakai 2005:122/Remy 551 P (L†, 1855, KEY, DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Base of sea cliff, tufts in basalt crevices Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 23414 Molokai BISH 1948-12-22
2 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details grassy basalt summit. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 20134 Oahu BISH 1941-01-19
3 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details in center of the open bog meadow. Preserved_Specimen Gillett, G.W. 1612 Oahu BISH 1964-12-05
4 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Tufts on shelving headland Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 12981 Oahu BISH 1933-03-25
5 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In crack of rock within influence of ocean breeze. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21964 Maui BISH 1952-02-28
6 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cultivated at the University of California, Irvine green house Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6843 Oahu BISH 1998-02-11
7 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In crevices between lava blocks, with Sida fallax and Lipochaeta integrifolia. Preserved_Specimen Carlquist, S. 2420 Oahu BISH 1967-03-19
8 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing Digitaria, Bidens molokaiensis, Lipochaeta integrifolia, Sida and Chenopodium on ledges on steep cliff face. Preserved_Specimen Nagata, K.M. 1856 Molokai BISH 1979-05-27
9 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details coastal herb, shrub, grassland; Scaevola sericea, Sesuvium portulacastrum, Vigna marina, Boehavia repens, Portulaca lutea, Schiedea globosa Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 12905 Maui BISH 2008-03-19
10 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on the rocky vertical cliffs Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 2738 Oahu BISH 1959-03-29
11 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details coastal dry; Panicum torridum, Doryopteris decipiens, Lysimachia mauritiana, Schiedea globosa, Gnaphalium sandwicensium, Eragrostis variabilis, Scaevola sericea, Lipochaeta integrifolia, Chenopodium oahuense, Mariscus phleoides Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 7181 Maui BISH 1998-02-11
12 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On steep cliff. Local patch. Abundant. Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. 1780 Maui BISH 1937-02-10
13 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In shade of rocks overhead, just above tide line. Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1978-01-07
14 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Coastal, clay ledges. Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 25047 Maui BISH 1959-03-30
15 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on ledges facing ocean Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21952 Maui BISH 1952-02-26
16 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep coastal cliff Preserved_Specimen Annable, C.R. 3929 Maui BISH 1999-02-19
17 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lantana camara, Pluchea carolinensis, Osteomeles anthyllidifolia, Schiedea globosa, Chenopodium oahuense, Cocculus orbiculatus, Eragrostis variabilis, Plectranthus parviflorus, Dodonaea viscosa, Psydrax odorata, Chamaesyce celastroides Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 11221 Hawaii BISH 2005-04-14
18 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on the rocky vertical cliffs Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 2738 Oahu BISH 1959-03-29
19 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Grassy headland or an open basalt talus. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 26717 Maui BISH 1965-12-27
20 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Vegetation: Scaevola Coastal Shrubland with Lycium, Sesuvium, Fimbristylis, Cyperus, Chenopodium, Osteomeles, Sida, Lipochaeta, Panicum, Eragrostis, Schenkia, Lysimachia, Pseudognaphalium, Schinus, Digitaria, Lantana, Anagalis, Desmodium. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 41503 Maui BISH 2015-04-02
21 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry region. Preserved_Specimen Furmidge, G. Oahu BISH 1933-03-25
22 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cultivated at the University of California, Irvine green house Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6844 Oahu BISH 1998-02-11
23 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Irvine greenhouse Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6849 Maui BISH 1998-02-11
24 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hume, E.P. 177 Oahu BISH 1931-01-24
25 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6847 Oahu BISH 1998-02-11
26 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 2481 Maui BISH 1986-01-22
27 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7008 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
28 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7008 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
29 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 529 Molokai BISH 1912-09-01
30 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen MacCaughey, V. 12924 Oahu BISH 1912-01-01
31 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 6184 Molokai BISH 1910-03-01
32 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 14067 Molokai BISH
33 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 594 Molokai BISH 1912-09-01
34 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7008 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
35 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In crevasses. Preserved_Specimen Bruegmann, M.M. 106 Oahu BISH 1985-01-26
36 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry rocky, steep slope. some 1000 plants Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 401 Oahu BISH 1978-08-20
37 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rocky ledges; locally common Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 72 Oahu BISH 1984-02-12
38 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rémy, J. 591 Molokai BISH 1851-01-01
39 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 1302 Maui BISH 1982-03-07
40 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 2480 Maui BISH 1986-01-22
41 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 20133 Oahu BISH 1941-02-09
42 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 1094 Maui BISH 1909-09-01
43 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wysong, M.L. 598 Molokai BISH 2005-02-06
44 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7008 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
45 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bennett, T. 157 Oahu BISH
46 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 580 Oahu BISH 1864-05-04
47 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7007 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
48 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 314 Maui BISH 1913-02-01
49 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Christophersen, E. Oahu BISH 1924-11-16
50 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 1086 Molokai BISH 1910-06-01
51 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 22 Molokai BISH 1912-06-01
52 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5312 Oahu BISH 1984-03-01
53 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Swezey, O.H. Oahu BISH 1934-02-04
54 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Weller, S.G. 844 Oahu BISH 1984-01-01
55 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. Oahu BISH 1909-06-11
56 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Neal, M.C. Oahu BISH 1930-03-30
57 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 14059 BISH
58 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Cooke, C.M. Molokai BISH 1915-02-01
59 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kawelo, K. Oahu BISH 2001-02-18
60 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Molokai BISH
61 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 267 Maui BISH 1910-07-01
62 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 2446 Oahu BISH 1917-04-05
63 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7008 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
64 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Oahu BISH 1957-01-12
65 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pearsall, G.A. Oahu BISH 1948-03-01
66 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Kerr, M. Oahu BISH 1946-06-26
67 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 7008 Molokai BISH 1910-04-01
68 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 74 Oahu BISH 1994-02-12
69 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Irvine greenhouse Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6852 Maui BISH 1998-02-12
70 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing on boulder rubble at storm high water line, several sterile plants seen also at base of Wailele Falls. Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 2177 Molokai BISH 1984-08-27
71 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In dry native sea cliff, with Nama sandwicensis, Sida fallax, Bidens pilosa. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 9401 Oahu BISH 1988-01-05
72 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Cultivated at the University of California, Irvine green house Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6848 Oahu BISH 1998-02-11
73 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep cliff faces below dump site; growing in association with Lipochaeta integrifolia, Bidens molokaiensis, Panicum. Preserved_Specimen Lowrey, T.K. 452 Molokai BISH 1979-05-12
74 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Base of sea cliff, tufts in basalt crevices Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 23414 Molokai BISH 1948-12-22
75 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On basalt rocks Preserved_Specimen Kerr, M. Oahu BISH 1945-05-08
76 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details near coast Preserved_Specimen Anderson, S.J. Molokai BISH 1985-07-02
77 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on rocky slopes, crowded by Sida fallax & Leucaena; locally common, especially on ledges, populations in profuse bloom Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 60 Oahu BISH 1984-01-29
78 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details grassy basalt summit Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 20133 Oahu BISH 1941-01-19
79 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details coastal, NE facing cliff, ~70 deg slope; Casuarina, Cocos nucifera, Nicotiana tabacum, Cyrtomium falcatum, Phymatosorus grossus, Pandanus tectorius, Sonchus oleraceus Preserved_Specimen Wysong, M.L. 863 Molokai BISH 2006-01-26
80 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details open dry steep slope. colony of about 1 hectare, over 200 p0lants, from the Head to the next high peak W. of sl. Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 396 Oahu BISH 1978-07-23
81 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lots of plants Preserved_Specimen Davis, J. 46 Maui BISH 1978-07-03
82 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Hundreds on sheer W wall. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 504061 Maui BISH 2005-04-06
83 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on eroded volcanic tuff slopes, often in pockets of tuff among lava block outcroppings. With Lipochaeta, Jacquemontia. Preserved_Specimen Carlquist, S. 1688 Oahu BISH 1964-12-20
84 Schiedea globosa Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details along coastal boulder-strewn beach with vertical cliff at back 10-30 m. from water. Cliff with Artemisia australis, Chenopodium oahuense, Schiedea globosa, Kalanchoe pinnata, Tetramolopium sylvae, Lythrum maritimum, and Hedyotis littoralis, among others. Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5741 Molokai BISH 1987-08-01
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