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Schiedea pubescens

Hillebr. (1888)

This name is accepted

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

ma oli oli

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Reclining or weakly climbing vines.

Stems: Stems often swollen at the nodes, primary stems 10–60 dm long, green with a purple tinge or purple–spotted, glabrous proximally, puberulent or glabrate in the inflorescence.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades lanceolate to ovate or broadly ovate, usually inconspicuously falcate, 6–18.7 cm long, 3–7.5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate or sometimes obtuse with a small mucronate tip. Base leaf bases often connate around the stem, base cuneate to broadly obtuse. Surfaces glaborous, occasionally with a few scattered hairs on Lower surfaces side of the younger leaves; blades coriaceous, purple–tinged or purple–spotted, especially along the midrib, with only the midvein evident. Margins slightly thickened, occasionally with a few scattered antrorsely hooked hairs 0.1–0.15 mm long. Midvein excentric, ± purple. Petioles 0.5–3.1 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence terminal, with 30–88 flowers, 30–50 (–150) cm long, open, diffuse, sparsely to densely puberulent in the inflorescence, the hairs purple, 0.15–0.3 mm long; bracts green, purple–tinged or purple–spotted, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate or the smallest ones subulate, those of central axis 2.5–11 mm long, those of branches and flowers 1.5–3 mm long; pedicels 6–18 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Sepals 2.8–3.5 mm long, lanceolate, purple, or green with a purple midvein, opaque, strongly reflexed in the proximal ¼, producing a large transverse bulge, distal part deeply navicular and usually weakly inrolled toward the apex, oriented at 0° to 10° angle to the pedicel, sparsely to densely puberulent, margins scarious and densely ciliate, apex long–attenuate. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 10; filaments strongly dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl usually erect, 4.5–5.5 mm long, the alternate greatly reduced, 0.6–1.3 mm long; anthers dimorphic, those of the antisepalous Stamens 0.8–0.9 mm long, those of the alternate Stamens 0.55–0.6 mm long, yellow. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule placentation free-central; styles 3 (–4).

Fruit: Capsules 2.5–3 mm long; ovoid. Seeds 0.9–1.1 mm long; orbicular–reniform; compressed; the surface transversely rugose; perisperm starchy; hard or rarely soft; true endosperm absent.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Rare; in mesic to wet forest.

Elevation Range: 640–1220 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Molokai Endemic
Lana'i Endemic
Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Clyde Imada.
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Scattered in diverse mesic forest, 600-900 m, Maunakapu to Mount Ka'ala, Wai.anae Mountains, O'ahu, and mesic to wet forest, 500-900 m, Pelekunu to Kala'e, Moloka.i, southern half of Ldna'ihale, Ldna.i, and Makawao,Hamdkua, Olowalu Valley, and K6,anapali, Mau
  • Two varieties are recognized within Schiedea pubescens: var. pubescens [incl. S. nuttalii var. intermedia, S. n. var. molokaiensis, S. pubescen^s var. degeneri, S. p. var. hillebrandii, S. p. var. Ianaiensisf with puberulent to subglabrous inflorescences and ovate to broadly ovate leaves (Moloka'i, Ldna'i, and Maui); and var. purpurascens with densely puberulent inflorescences and narrowly lanceolate leaves that are sometimes somewhat falcate (O.ahu). Schiedeo pubescens is very closely related to S. nuttallii and differs primarily in its vining habit and nearly always puberulent inflorescences; this separation is not complete, however, since ,S. nuttqllii is puberulent on Kaua'i and S. pubescens is subglabrous on Ldna'i, Moloka'i, and Maui. Schiedea nuttallii vars. intermedia and molokaiensis are known from only fragmentary collections but appear to belong under S. pubescens, rather than,S. nuttailii.

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 21 (1888)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:519 (Mo, L, M [as S. pubescens var. pubescens], O [as var. purpurascens]); Wagner, Weller & Sakai 2005:99 (remove O [re-IDed as S. pentandra], KEY, DESCR); PEPP 2025/Munro s.n. BISH 46574 (L†, 1922)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 3295 Maui BISH 1991-06-04
2 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 2328 Maui BISH 1920-05-12
3 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 34 Molokai BISH 1912-06-01
4 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 3295 Maui BISH 1991-06-04
5 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 3295 Maui BISH 1991-06-04
6 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 341 Lanai BISH 1917-09-01
7 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. Lanai BISH 1922-03-11
8 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 270 Lanai BISH 1913-06-01
9 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 287 Molokai BISH 1912-07-01
10 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH
11 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Maui BISH
12 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Maui BISH
13 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH 1870-01-01
14 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Molokai BISH
15 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Maui BISH 1870-08-01
16 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 424 Molokai BISH 1912-08-01
17 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 270 Lanai BISH 1913-06-01
18 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 34 Molokai BISH 1912-06-01
19 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Creeping like a vine through thick freycinetia Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 535 Lanai BISH 1922-05-11
20 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing on a sunny ridge. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 59913 Maui BISH 1999-05-16
21 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Observed along dark stream bed, dangling on vertical bank, rooted 3 m above in soil. Vegetation: Cheirodendron, Antidesma, Myrsine, Cyrtandra, Hedyotis, Freycinetia, Xylosma, Urera, Pipturus, Pouteria, Boehmeria, Sadleria, Tectaria, Psidium, Buddleia, Rubus, Tibouchina. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 20620 Maui BISH 2006-02-23
22 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rare, sprawling on ground as well as climbing adjacent vegetation in small ravine in dense shade, heavily eaten by Derocerus slugs. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Dodonaea, Dicranopteris, Diplopterygium, Freycinetia, Broussaisia, Coprosma, Perrottetia, Kadua, Cyrtandra, Alyxia, Ilex, Myrsine, Melicope, Nothocestrum, Cibotium, Sadleria, Diplazium, Athyrium, Pipturus, Touchardia, Urera, Cyanea, Clermontia, Peperomia, Tibouchina, Rubus. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 81317 Maui BISH 2013-08-07
23 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details growing in a tangle of ieie and other vegetation. The only plant of the kind I have seen Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 695 Lanai BISH 1922-03-11
24 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Woods Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 230 Maui BISH 1910-07-01
25 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros, Perrottetia sandwicensis, Psychotria mariniana, Melicope molokaiensis, Touchardia latifolia, Urera glabra, Cyanea solenocalyx, ferns Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 10603 Molokai BISH 2004-03-10
26 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Lowland wet forest Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 11977 Maui BISH 1991-06-09
27 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Rare, sprawling on ground as well as climbing adjacent vegetation in small ravine in dense shade, heavily eaten by Derocerus slugs. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Dodonaea, Dicranopteris, Diplopterygium, Freycinetia, Broussaisia, Coprosma, Perrottetia, Kadua, Cyrtandra, Alyxia, Ilex, Myrsine, Melicope, Nothocestrum, Cibotium, Sadleria, Diplazium, Athyrium, Pipturus, Touchardia, Urera, Cyanea, Clermontia, Peperomia, Tibouchina, Rubus. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 81317 Maui BISH 2013-08-07
28 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On both sides of narrow, 2-3m wide gully. On ledges 2m above intermittent tributary. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Cheirodendron, Clermontia, Dicranopteris, Sticherus, Diplopterygium, Broussaisia, Cibotium, Carex, Cyperus, Cyrtandra, Christella, Kadua, Alyxia, Lycopodium, Sadleria, Selaginella. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 80704 Molokai BISH 2007-08-29
29 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hillebrand, W.B. Maui BISH 1870-08-01
30 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details along perennial stream. Vegetation: Metrosideros, Planchonella, Pisonia, Perrottetia, Freycinetia, Coprosma, Psychotria, Pipturus, Urera, Touchardia, Cyanea, Myrsine, Dodonaea, Xylosma, Cyrtandra, Tectaria, Diplazium, Marattia, Smilax, Peperomia, Buddleia, Microlepia, Lepisorus, Pteris, and Tectaria. Preserved_Specimen Oppenheimer, H.L. 41410 Maui BISH 2016-04-10
31 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details scrambling through thicket Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 23745 Molokai BISH 1954-11-19
32 Schiedea pubescens Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In degraded Metrosideros lowland wet forest with broussaisia, Antidesma, charpentiera, Pipturus, Clermontia kakeana, Freycinetia, dodonaea, Sadleria, Diplazium sandwichianum, Cibotium, Cyanea elliptica, Wikstroemia, Melinus, Kalanchoe, Rubus Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 14682 Molokai BISH 1995-02-21
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