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Silene perlmanii

W.L.Wagner, D.R.Herbst & Sohmer (1989)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Subshrubs, usually many-branched from base, often forming clumps.

Stems: Stems erect to ascending, 3–5 dm long, glabrous, often swollen at the nodes.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite or whorled. Blades narrowly elliptic, 50–105 mm long, 7–16 mm wide. Apex acute. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem. gradually tapering to base. Surfaces glabrous except Upper surfaces strigillose toward base. Margins entire, ciliate in the lower 5–6 mm and sometimes also toward apex, sometimes somewhat undulate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers few in terminal, corymbose cymes, densely short–hirtellous throughout. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Pedicels 7–10 mm long. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed, 22–30 mm long, 10–nerved, sometimes with conspicuous lateral nerves from the sinus nerves in upper ⅓, densely short–hirtellous, the lobes 3–6 mm long, margins scarious and weakly purple–tinged, also sparsely citiate. Corolla of 5 petals; petals white, blades obovate, 8–10 mm long, deeply notched, the appendage ca. 2.5–3 mm long, deeply 2-cleft, each tooth obliquely bifid, the claw 11–12.5 mm long, sparsely ciliate. Stamens exserted beyond calyx. Ovary superior, 1-celled or incompletely 2–4 celled, on a well–developed stipe that is adnate to the staminal filament bases and petal bases (referred to as a carpophore); styles 3–4; Carpophore ca. 13 mm long.

Fruit: Capsules oblong–obovoid; 3–4–celled in the lower 2/3; 9–10 mm long (immature); dehiscent by 6 or rarely 3 apical teeth or valves. Seeds unknown.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Extremely rare; known from a single population on a cliff face in diverse mesic forest.

Elevation Range: ca. 790 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

O'ahu Extirpated

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • 790 m
  • Description digitized by Mercedez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 29: 94 (1989)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:523 (O); Wood et al. 2019/Wood 1980 PTBG (EXTINCT, 1992)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Silene perlmanii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Near Pritchardia martii with Plantago princeps var. anomala, Pelea, Schinus and grasses like molasses grass Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 5671 Oahu BISH 1987-04-21
2 Silene perlmanii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In Acacia koa-Metrosideros lowland mesic forest with Plantago princeps var princeps, Pritchardia, Coprosma, Melicope, Hedyotis, Alyxia, Cyanea membranacea, Schinus, Erigeron Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 5671 Oahu BISH 1987-04-21
3 Silene perlmanii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Below Pritchardia cf. martii, vertical cliff with Plantago princeps var. anomala. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 5401 Oahu BISH 1987-03-05
4 Silene perlmanii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Below Pritchardia cf. martii, vertical cliff with Plantago princeps var. anomala. Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 5401 Oahu BISH 1987-03-05
5 Silene perlmanii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 87655 Oahu BISH 1987-04-21
6 Silene perlmanii Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Obata, J.K. 87655 Oahu BISH 1987-04-21
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