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Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense

(Krajina) Lowry (1987)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Araliaceae Genus: Cheirodendron

‘ōlapa, lapalapa

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 2–10 m tall; secretory canals present in most parts.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound (palmate). Opposite. Leaflets broadly ovate to depressed–ovate or subreniform, 3.5–7(–9) cm long, up to nearly twice as wide; leaflets 3, occasionally 1 caducous, coriaceous, chartaceous when dry. midvein, margins, petiolule, and petiole usually tinged purple, petiolule often laterally compressed. Apex rounded, occasionally acuminate–mucronate. Base truncate to broadly obtuse, rarely subcordate. Margins entire or remotely serrulate. Veins raised on upper surface in dried material. Petioles base often broad and sheathing the stem. Petioles (5–)7–12 cm long, petiolules 2.5–5 cm long, laterally compressed. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal, erect, oppositely branched panicles of umbellules. Inflorescences up to 15 cm long. Bracts minute, subconnate, persistent, forming an involucel below the umbellules and pseudocalyx below each flower; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect) and functionally staminate (the plants andromonoecious). Calyx of 5 short, basally connate teeth. Corolla of 5(6) petals, buds dark purple, mature petals purple externally, greenish within, valvate, caducous, triangular to ovate or oblong, apex inflexed. Stamens usually as many as and alternate with the petals, sometimes numerous, distinct, inserted at the edge of the epigynous nectary disk; 5, pale yellow, spreading. Ovary inferior, (4)5-carpellate, carpels connate (rarely pseudomonomerous), with as many cells; ovules pendulous, 2 per cell, 1 abortive; styles (4)5, 1–1.5 mm long, connate into a blunt, cylindrical stylopodium surmounted by the circular stigmas.

Fruit: Drupes green; ripening dark purple; exocarp fleshy; globose; or laterally compressed and orbicular or oblate to ovoid or obovoid; 3–7.5 mm long; pyrenes cartilaginous; laterally compressed; as many as styles. [Gaudichaud–Beaupé; 1830; Gray; 1854a; Heller; 1897; Herat; 1981; Hochreutiner; 1925; Krajina; 1931; Leveille; 1911a; St. John; 1959; Seemann; 1864–1868; Sherff; 1951c; 1952a; 1954a; 1962]; globose; weakly; if at all; (4)5–sided (ribbed when dry); 3.5–7.5 mm long (incl. styles). Seeds 1 per pyrene; embryo small.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Known only from mesic to wet forest.

Elevation Range: 700–1,300 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Tim/curated by Pu
  • The name lapalapa is presumably an onomatopoeia for the sound made by the leaves as the flutter in the wind (Hochreutiner, 1925).

Bibliography

Name Published In: Pacific Sci. 40: 81 (1986 publ. 1987)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:227 (K)

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Lowry, P.P. (1986). A Synopsis of Native Hawaiian Araliaceae. Pacific Science 40 1-4, 79-87

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Forest Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2906 Kauai BISH 1938-08-13
2 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sunny rainforest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27203 Kauai BISH 1960-11-16
3 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest on ridge w/ Metrosideros, Dicranopteris, Vaccinium dentatum, Hedyotis, Sadleria, Smilax, Ilex, Broussaisia Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 3799 Kauai BISH 2014-06-03
4 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Moist woods Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 10782 Kauai BISH 1930-12-27
5 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing w/ ohia Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 164 Kauai BISH 1983-08-16
6 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Melicope clusliifolia, Cheirodendron sp., Astella sp., Metrosideros polymorpha, Cibotium menzeesii, Smilax melastomifolia, Vaccinium calychum, Vaccinum dentatum on side of face of valley into stream Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 3050823 Kauai BISH 2023-05-08
7 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Melicope clusiifolia, Metrosideros polymorpha, Cheirodendron sp., Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Dianella sandwicense, Vaccinium calycinum, Vaccinium dentatum. on small ridge in middle of bowl Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 1050723 Kauai BISH 2023-05-07
8 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Peperomia sp., Melicope clusiifolia, Metrosideros polymorpha, Cheirodendron sp., Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Dianella sandwicense, Astelia sp., Vaccinium calycinum. very edge of plateau, close to side of cliff, growing out of ohia Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 9050623 Kauai BISH 2023-05-06
9 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Hydrangea arguta, Metrosideros polymorpha, Peperomia sp., Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Cibotium menzeesii, Cheirodendron sp., Vaccinium dentatium, Vaccinium calycinum. plateau on ridgeline, close to edge of plateau Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 8050623 Kauai BISH 2023-05-06
10 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Rhynchospora montane bog Coprosma elliptica, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Melicope clusiifolia, Viola kauaiensis, Vaccinium dentatum, Dubautia paleata, Oreobolus furcatus, Wikstroemia oahuensis palustris, Scaevola glabra, Santa Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 15383 Kauai BISH 2013-01-31
11 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Stream bank Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 168 Kauai BISH 1983-08-16
12 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details At edge of bog. Preserved_Specimen Gustafson, R. 1070 Kauai BISH 1978-11-26
13 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest on divide Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22934 Kauai BISH 1947-12-22
14 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Dicranopteris wet forest and deeply carved drainage with riparian vegetation with Kadua affinis, Psychotria mariniana, P. hexandra, Coprosma kauaiensis, Syzygium sandwicensis, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Dubautia raillardioides, D. laxa, Melicope wawrana, M. clusiifolia, Myrsine w Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 16399 Kauai BISH 2015-04-10
15 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Less swampy areas of swamp Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 1549 Kauai BISH 1956-12-27
16 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest 5-8 m tall, steep slopes of Dicranopteris, Diplopterygium, & Sticherus, dissected by riparian vegetation. W/ Broussaisia, Myrsine spp, Leptecophylla, Smilax, Syzygium, Stenogyne, Astelia, Vaccinium spp, Melicope clusiifolia, M. kavaiensis, Cibotium spp, Sadleria spp, Athyrium microphyllum, Lobelia villos Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 14325 Kauai BISH 2010-09-28
17 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bog Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 2188 Kauai BISH 1971-10-03
18 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Cheirodendron sp., Hydrangea arguta, Lycopodium cernuum, Astelia sp., Metrosideros polymorpha, Cibotium menzeesii, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Smilax melastomifolia, Vaccinium dentatium. side of ridge, small bowl in the northwest facing side of the ridge. Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 10050823 Kauai BISH 2023-05-08
19 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet forest. Preserved_Specimen Stern, W.L. 1240 Kauai BISH 1961-08-01
20 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of road, high plateau Preserved_Specimen Pearsall, G.A. 407 Kauai BISH 1959-07-08
21 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Cheirodendron sp., Hydrangea arguta, Lycopodium cernuum, Astella sp., Metrosideros polymorpha, Cibotium menzeesii, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Smilax melastomifolia, Vaccinium dentatum. side of ridge, small bowl in the northwest facing side of the ridge Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 1050823 Kauai BISH 2023-05-08
22 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rain forest. Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 26746 Kauai BISH 1968-04-16
23 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest Cheirodendron sp., Cibotium menzeesii, Smilax melastomifolia, Metrosideros polymorpha, Peperomia sp., Dianella sandwicense, Leptecophylla tameiamelae, Vaccinium calycinum right next to stream on side of wall hanging ove stream Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 8050823 Kauai BISH 2023-05-08
24 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet montaine forest. Cheirodendron trigynum, Melicope clusiifolia, Metrosideros polymorpha, Leptecophylla tameiameiae Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 1022723 Kauai BISH 2023-02-28
25 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of bog Preserved_Specimen Pearsall, G.A. 406 Kauai BISH 1959-07-10
26 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rainforest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 23849 Kauai BISH 1955-09-07
27 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Melicope clusliifolia, Cheirodendron sp., Astella sp., Metrosideros polymorpha, Cibotium menzeesii, Smilax melastomifolia, Vaccinium calycinum, Vaccinium dentatum. On side of face of valley intop stream Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 2050823 Kauai BISH 2023-05-08
28 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros open mesic forest with adjacent transitional wet foreset and slopes of Dicranopteris with Kadua affinis, Cheirodendron fauriei, Ilex, Syzygium sandwicensis, Myrsine linearifolia, Scaevola procera, Xylosma hawaiiense, Cyrtandra paludosa, Lysimachia sp., Santalum pyrularium, Bubautia laevi Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 18688 Kauai BISH 2021-05-10
29 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Stunted, windblown rain forest, disturbed by goats. Associated species: Pritchardia, Metrosideros, Ilex, Syzygium, Lobelia, Myrsine. Preserved_Specimen Gagné, W.C. 578 Kauai BISH 1970-09-04
30 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Cheirodendron spp., Metrosideros polymorpha, Myrsine spp. Vaccinium calycinum. growing on a ridge side close to a stream. Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 1050523 Kauai BISH 2023-05-05
31 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet, stunted rainforest Preserved_Specimen Gagné, W.C. 561 Kauai BISH 1970-08-28
32 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest w/ 8-10 m tall closed canopy, w/ Melicope clusiifolia, Myrsine wawraea, Kadua affinis, Smilax, Vaccinium, Ilex, Myrsine lessertiana, Dubautia laxa, Clermontia fauriei, Lobelia kauaensis, Cibotium, and Sadlera, terrestrially dominated by Peperomia hesperomannii with a great diversity of bryophytes. Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 14170 Kauai BISH 2010-04-07
33 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rich low wet forest w/ Metrosideros and Cheirodendron. Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 5603 Kauai BISH 1987-10-14
34 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Sunny rainforest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27203 Kauai BISH 1960-11-16
35 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Low, wet elfin cloud forest of Metrosideros spp., Cheirodendron and Pelea spp. trees covered by bryophytes, interspered w/ low shrubland of Metrosideros, Myrsine, and Vaccinium and open boggy areas w/ native herbs.... Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 6045 Kauai BISH 1988-06-18
36 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest. Hydrangea arguta, Metrosideros polymorpha, Peperomia sp., Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Cibotium menzeesii, Cheirodendron sp., Vaccinium dentatium, Vaccinium calycinum. plateau on ridgeline, close to edge of plateau Preserved_Specimen Romero, C. 6050623 Kauai BISH 2023-05-06
37 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Chock, A.K. 977 Kauai BISH 1953-08-18
38 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 21471 Kauai BISH 1951-12-27
39 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 367 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
40 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1039 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
41 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 58 Kauai BISH 1982-10-30
42 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Heller, A.A. 2244 Kauai BISH 1895-09-10
43 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen MacDaniels, L.H. 806 Kauai BISH 1927-02-15
44 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 367 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
45 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1990-02-17
46 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 195 Kauai BISH 1970-04-16
47 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3703 Kauai BISH 1961-08-08
48 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5707 Kauai BISH 1909-09-04
49 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5029 Kauai BISH 1983-08-30
50 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. 478 Kauai BISH 1987-06-01
51 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Woolford, H.A. 406 Kauai BISH 1956-12-28
52 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. 496 Kauai BISH 1987-06-01
53 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5968 BISH 1909-01-01
54 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 261 Kauai BISH 1910-01-01
55 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1527 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
56 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1525 Kauai BISH 1909-02-14
57 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Crosby, M.R. 1455 Kauai BISH 1964-06-19
58 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet Mesic Forest Peperomia sp., Dicranopteris linearis, Melicope clusliifolia, Dianella sandwicense, Cibotium menzeesii, Cheirodendron sp., Leptecophylla tameiamelae, Vaccinium calycinum, Vaccinium dentatum almost an island in that it is almost completely surrounded by water but it’s a small low elevation plateau like area Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 7050823 Kauai BISH 2023-05-08
59 Cheirodendron platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5707 Kauai BISH 1909-09-04
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