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Hunnemannia fumariifolia

Sweet (1828)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Ranunculopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Papaveraceae Genus: Hunnemannia

golden cup, Mexican tulip poppy

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect perennial herbs 5–6 dm tall, colorless sap.

Stems: Becoming somewhat woody at base, stems glaucous, branched, forming bushy clumps.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades ternately cleft into numerous linear–elliptic lobes, ca. 6–17 cm long, the lobes 2–5 mm wide. Surfaces glaucous. Margins highly dissected. Long-petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers solitary, terminal. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 2 sepals; sepals caducous. Petals dark yellow, broadly obovate to suborbicular, distinct, 3–4.5 cm long, the fifth petal, when present, ca. 2 cm long. Stamens ca. 70, orange; filaments filiform; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, oblong–elliptic, longitudinally 10–ribbed; stigma peltate, subsessile.

Fruit: Capsules cylindrical; ca. 9–10 cm long; dehiscing by 2 valves from base upward. Seeds numerous; subglobose; rugose; endosperm oily.

Ploidy: 2n = 28; 56

Habitat: Remnant dry woodland.

Elevation Range: 550–575 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

O'ahu Only found in cultivation
Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

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Notes

  • 550-575 m
  • Degener (1936a) states that seed of this species was sown on a grave near the end of 'Ulupalakua Road in 1920 and by 1922 the plant had begun to spread; this represents the first known introduction.-Plate 143.
  • Description digitized by Dylan Charter
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Brit. Fl. Gard. 3: t. 276 (1828)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1007 (EM); Parker & Parsons 2012a:60 (H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Hunnemannia fumariifolia East Maui, Hana, Kanoi Roadside in `a`a lava flow with Opuntia, Lantana, & Chenopodium Preserved_Specimen Woolford, H.A. Maui BISH 1955-12-27
2 Hunnemannia fumariifolia S bound road near Manuka State Park, S Kona Growing on both sides of road, rocky substrate, near Macadamia nut orchard. Associates: Schinus terebinthifolius, Metrosideros polymorpha, Cordyline fruticosa, Aleurites moluccana. Preserved_Specimen Parker, J. 100 Hawaii BISH 2009-10-19
3 Hunnemannia fumariifolia East Maui, 2.7 mi E of Ulupalakua Ranch on Piilani Hwy (31) On `a`a lava flow dominated by Wikstroemia, Reynoldsia, Leucaena, Lantana, and Myoporum (occasional). Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 4777 Maui BISH 1983-01-14
4 Hunnemannia fumariifolia In arid region near end of Ululpalakua Rd Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8628 Maui BISH 1927-06-23
5 Hunnemannia fumariifolia In arid region near end of Ululpalakua Rd. First seen in 1922. Told it had been planted a few years before on a grave in the vicinity Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8628 Maui BISH 1927-06-23
6 Hunnemannia fumariifolia E of Ulupalakua Common on `a`a flows Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 831 Maui BISH 1967-12-30
7 Hunnemannia fumariifolia Honolulu, florist store Preserved_Specimen Suehiro, A. Oahu BISH 1939-08-07
8 Hunnemannia fumariifolia East Maui, South Coast Rd., near Nuu Landing Preserved_Specimen Krauss, N.L.H. 616 Maui BISH 1961-01-07
9 Hunnemannia fumariifolia Along Piilani Hwy, near Ulupalakua Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 1984 Maui BISH 1971-07-09
10 Hunnemannia fumariifolia Honolulu, florist store Preserved_Specimen Suehiro, A. Oahu BISH 1939-08-07
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