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Poranopsis paniculata

(Roxb.) Roberty (1952)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Convolvulaceae Genus: Poranopsis

bridal bouquet, bridal veil creeper, Christmas vine, porana, snow creeper, snow-in-the-jungle

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Climbers; indumentum grayish to dull yellow.

Stems: Stems puberulent, glabrescent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades cordate-circular, 7.5-16.5 X 5.3-15 cm. Surfaces smooth to rugulose, abaxially silvery villous. Petioles 2.6-10.8 cm.

Flowers: Panicle crowded; bracts cordate. Pedicel 2-4 mm, elongating in fruit. Flowers (4-)5-6(-7) mm. Flowers perfect. Sepals 5, lanceolate-linear, flat or concave, equal, 1-2 mm, tomentose-villous abaxially. Fruiting calyx tan, reddish, or pale brown, loosely clasping; outer 3 sepals elliptic-oblong to narrowly ovate, 1.6-2.2(-2.4) cm X 7-9 mm, puberulent, margin free. Corolla white to cream, narrowly funnelform; limb (3-)5-7 mm in diam., 5-lobed. Stamens included, ± equal; filaments glabrous. Ovary superior, glabrous; style obsolete; stigmas subsessile.

Fruit: Fruit tan to brownish with darker lines; globose-ellipsoid; 5-6(-7) X 4-5 mm; pubescent; apiculate. Seeds dark brown; globose-ellipsoid; 4-6 X 3-5 mm; glabrous.

Ploidy: 2n = 26

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Naturalized
Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Candollea 14: 26 (1952)

Other References

Starr et al. 2004:21 (NEWNAT/EM, DESCR); Staples & Herbst 2005:245 (KEY), 251 (DESCR); Parker & Parsons 2012a:58 (H); Brock et al. 2023:119 (K); Faccenda, Arthur, et al. 2025:168 (O)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Poranopsis paniculata Leftover parking spot, North shore Disturbed coastal shrubland, Leucaena leucocephala, panicum maximum; invaded shrubland Preserved_Specimen Ching-Harbin, S. 2020112901 Oahu BISH 2020-11-29
2 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, 2616 Pali Hwy on trees and a fence in partial and full sun Preserved_Specimen Lau, J. 1643 Oahu BISH 1985-11-16
3 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, grounds of Queen's Hospital Preserved_Specimen Price, J.A. Oahu BISH 1943-01-21
4 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, 43 Coelho Way Preserved_Specimen Neal, M.C. Oahu BISH 1946-03-27
5 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, Queen's Hospital Preserved_Specimen Fosberg, F.R. 13307 Oahu BISH 1936-11-02
6 Poranopsis paniculata Kawaihau District, on Opae Kaa Rd Unmaintained, wet, lowland yard. Basalt substrate. Associated vegetation: Hibiscus tiliaceus. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 202272 Kauai BISH 2002-02-27
7 Poranopsis paniculata Windward Oahu, Heeia State Park; outside parking area on makai side toward Kaneohe Climbing over a thicket of hau shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Staples, G.W. 1172 Oahu BISH 1998-12-20
8 Poranopsis paniculata Lihue, vacant lot at 4202 Rice in trees along street Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 6326 Kauai BISH 1988-01-29
9 Poranopsis paniculata Heeia State Park across fence on Kailua side of park facing fishpond Coastal Windward O'ahu. Preserved_Specimen Lau, A. Oahu BISH 2007-01-27
10 Poranopsis paniculata Kealia/Kapaa; off of Kaao Rd. Unspecified Kelsey Brock 982 Kauai HAPI 5/10/2017
11 Poranopsis paniculata Kealia/Kapaa; off of Kaao Rd. Unspecified Kelsey Brock 982 Kauai HAPI 5/9/2017
12 Poranopsis paniculata Hamakua Dist.; Honokaa, Hotel Honokaa Club In the parking area. Preserved_Specimen Staples, G.W. 722 Hawaii BISH 1991-01-11
13 Poranopsis paniculata Kawaihau District. Kealia/Kapaa; off of Kaao Road. Growing in abandoned lot and sporadically along the edges of apasture behind residences. Covering Megathyrsus maximus and Leucaena leucocephala. Preserved_Specimen Brock, K. 982 Kauai BISH 2017-05-09
14 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, Makiki on house Preserved_Specimen Fosberg, F.R. 27156 Oahu BISH 1946-11-04
15 Poranopsis paniculata Koloa; Allerton Garden, Lawai Kai in lower Lawai Valley, along E side of Lawai Stream just S of Golden Bamboo grove behind rock wall climbing in Leucaena thicket Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 7737 Kauai BISH 1995-12-01
16 Poranopsis paniculata Tantalus overgrowing plants in yard Preserved_Specimen DLNR staff Oahu BISH 1988-06-17
17 Poranopsis paniculata South Kona, Hwy 11 covering 3 acres; Calotropis gigantea, Alocasia, Odontonema cuspidatum, Schinus terebinthifolius, Mangifera indica Preserved_Specimen Parker, J. 36 Hawaii BISH 2008-09-23
18 Poranopsis paniculata Near Pensacola and Hassinger St., Honolulu Growing over a large mango tree. Forms cover of fence and garage as well as into mango tree visible from Lunalilo Freeway. Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1979-12-11
19 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu garden Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. Oahu BISH 1938-01-24
20 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, near Pensacola and Hassinger St large mango tree, fence and garage Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1979-12-11
21 Poranopsis paniculata East Maui, Makawao, Maliko Gulch, near St. Joseph's Church Cultivated. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 9901054 Maui BISH 1999-01-05
22 Poranopsis paniculata lower Nuuanu Valley, in bed of Nuuanu Stream near junction of Nuuanu Ave. and Pali Hwy., just behind the Community Church of Honolulu. Growing on steep banks of stream and in the canopy of a large banyan tree (Ficus) towering above the stream Preserved_Specimen Staples, G.W. 1615 Oahu BISH 2014-12-20
23 Poranopsis paniculata Kealia, Kaao Street, in front of 4590 Kaao Street. Collected as part of KISC 2007 Early Detection Roadside Survey. KISC #20070531A006. Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 1340 Kauai BISH 2007-05-31
24 Poranopsis paniculata Leftover parking spot, North shore Disturbed coastal shrubland, Leucaena leucocephala, panicum maximum; invaded shrubland Preserved_Specimen Ching-Harbin, S. 2020112901 Oahu BISH 2020-11-29
25 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, 2616 Pali Hwy on trees and a fence in partial and full sun Preserved_Specimen Lau, J. 1643 Oahu BISH 1985-11-16
26 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, grounds of Queen's Hospital Preserved_Specimen Price, J.A. Oahu BISH 1943-01-21
27 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, 43 Coelho Way Preserved_Specimen Neal, M.C. Oahu BISH 1946-03-27
28 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, Queen's Hospital Preserved_Specimen Fosberg, F.R. 13307 Oahu BISH 1936-11-02
29 Poranopsis paniculata Kawaihau District, on Opae Kaa Rd Unmaintained, wet, lowland yard. Basalt substrate. Associated vegetation: Hibiscus tiliaceus. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 202272 Kauai BISH 2002-02-27
30 Poranopsis paniculata Windward Oahu, Heeia State Park; outside parking area on makai side toward Kaneohe Climbing over a thicket of hau shrubs. Preserved_Specimen Staples, G.W. 1172 Oahu BISH 1998-12-20
31 Poranopsis paniculata Lihue, vacant lot at 4202 Rice in trees along street Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 6326 Kauai BISH 1988-01-29
32 Poranopsis paniculata Heeia State Park across fence on Kailua side of park facing fishpond Coastal Windward O'ahu. Preserved_Specimen Lau, A. Oahu BISH 2007-01-27
33 Poranopsis paniculata Kealia/Kapaa; off of Kaao Rd. Unspecified Kelsey Brock 982 Kauai HAPI 5/10/2017
34 Poranopsis paniculata Kealia/Kapaa; off of Kaao Rd. Unspecified Kelsey Brock 982 Kauai HAPI 5/9/2017
35 Poranopsis paniculata Hamakua Dist.; Honokaa, Hotel Honokaa Club In the parking area. Preserved_Specimen Staples, G.W. 722 Hawaii BISH 1991-01-11
36 Poranopsis paniculata Kawaihau District. Kealia/Kapaa; off of Kaao Road. Growing in abandoned lot and sporadically along the edges of apasture behind residences. Covering Megathyrsus maximus and Leucaena leucocephala. Preserved_Specimen Brock, K. 982 Kauai BISH 2017-05-09
37 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, Makiki on house Preserved_Specimen Fosberg, F.R. 27156 Oahu BISH 1946-11-04
38 Poranopsis paniculata Koloa; Allerton Garden, Lawai Kai in lower Lawai Valley, along E side of Lawai Stream just S of Golden Bamboo grove behind rock wall climbing in Leucaena thicket Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 7737 Kauai BISH 1995-12-01
39 Poranopsis paniculata Tantalus overgrowing plants in yard Preserved_Specimen DLNR staff Oahu BISH 1988-06-17
40 Poranopsis paniculata South Kona, Hwy 11 covering 3 acres; Calotropis gigantea, Alocasia, Odontonema cuspidatum, Schinus terebinthifolius, Mangifera indica Preserved_Specimen Parker, J. 36 Hawaii BISH 2008-09-23
41 Poranopsis paniculata Near Pensacola and Hassinger St., Honolulu Growing over a large mango tree. Forms cover of fence and garage as well as into mango tree visible from Lunalilo Freeway. Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1979-12-11
42 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu garden Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. Oahu BISH 1938-01-24
43 Poranopsis paniculata Honolulu, near Pensacola and Hassinger St large mango tree, fence and garage Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Oahu BISH 1979-12-11
44 Poranopsis paniculata East Maui, Makawao, Maliko Gulch, near St. Joseph's Church Cultivated. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 9901054 Maui BISH 1999-01-05
45 Poranopsis paniculata lower Nuuanu Valley, in bed of Nuuanu Stream near junction of Nuuanu Ave. and Pali Hwy., just behind the Community Church of Honolulu. Growing on steep banks of stream and in the canopy of a large banyan tree (Ficus) towering above the stream Preserved_Specimen Staples, G.W. 1615 Oahu BISH 2014-12-20
46 Poranopsis paniculata Kealia, Kaao Street, in front of 4590 Kaao Street. Collected as part of KISC 2007 Early Detection Roadside Survey. KISC #20070531A006. Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 1340 Kauai BISH 2007-05-31
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