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Melicope barbigera

A.Gray (1854)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Melicope

alani, alani kuahiwi, uahiapele

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small trees 3–12 m tall, new growth grayish appressed puberulent.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades ± slightly folded, narrowly elliptic, rarely elliptic, 8–20(–30) cm long, 5–6.5(–9) cm wide. Apex obtuse to bluntly acute, usually with a short mucro, sometimes ± slightly emarginate. Base rounded to subtruncate and ± emarginate. Surfaces dull green, weakly scented when crushed, chartaceous, with a waxy scurf. Margins entire. Primary lateral veins usually 12–16 pairs, inconspicuous except paler than surface, connected by a strongly arched vein 1–8 mm from margin, lower surface densely soft villous in a line along each side of midrib, less so on surface away from midrib, venation pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern. Petioles 25–70 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 3–5 in grayish appressed puberulent cymes, peduncles 20–25 mm long, pedicels 1–5 mm long, bracts and bracteoles 6–8 mm long, caducous, bracts small, opposite. Calyx of 4 sepals; sepals narrowly ovate, 3–4 mm long, grayish appressed puberulent, apex acute, imbricate. Corolla of 4 petals; petals deltate–ovate, 5–8 mm long, grayish appressed puberulent, valvate. Stamens 8, in 2 whorls, distinct, reduced but always present in functionally pistillate flowers. Ovary superior, puberulent, ovary 4-celled and 4-lobed, carpels connate, only slightly distinct at apex to almost entirely distinct; ovules 2 per cell, hemitropous, 1 ascending; style 1, terminating in 4 short stigmatic branches.

Fruit: Fruit 20–40 mm wide; consisting of 4 follicles; these ± recurved; sometimes 1 or more abortive; 10–20 mm long; thin–walled; veins conspicuous; exocarp glabrate; endocarp glabrous. Seeds 1–2 per carpel; 4–7 mm long. glossy black when ripe; crustaceous; ovoid; sometimes angled from compression; embryo straight in fleshy endosperm; radicle short; cotyledons compressed; ovate; putamen brown; warty.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Common in diverse mesic forest; 850-1 ;220 m

Elevation Range: 850–1,220 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: U.S. Expl. Exped., Phan. 1: 351 (1854)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1184 (K [as Pelea barbigera]); Hartley & Stone 1989:122 (COMBNOV, Syn. P. barbigera = M. barbigera)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hobdy, R.W. 11 Kauai BISH 1968-01-01
2 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3332 Kauai BISH 1960-04-12
3 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 4970 Kauai BISH 1983-08-26
4 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. 215 Kauai BISH 1987-06-16
5 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3393 Kauai BISH 1960-04-14
6 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Crosby, M.R. 2017 Kauai BISH 1964-08-13
7 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 3669 Kauai BISH 1987-09-26
8 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 6030 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
9 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 2636 Kauai BISH 1972-07-31
10 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 873 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
11 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Faurie, A. 185 Kauai BISH 1910-02-01
12 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 10837 Kauai BISH 1930-12-28
13 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Dreyer, D. 211 Kauai BISH 1971-08-08
14 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1916-10-01
15 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1983-06-25
16 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17278 Kauai BISH 1920-01-28
17 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Pearsall, G.A. Kauai BISH 1956-12-29
18 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 26742 Kauai BISH 1968-04-17
19 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mixed mesic forest w thick patches of Lantana in valley bottom. Acacia koa - Metrosideros polymorpha w/ Tetraplasandra kavaiensis, Melicope ovata, Alyxia stellata, Dodonaea viscosa, Alphitonia, Leptecophylla, Wikstroemia furcata, Xylosma crenatum, X. hawaiiense, Coprosma, Myrsine lanaiensis, Carex wahuensis, Hedyotis terminalis, Scaevola. Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 1840 Kauai BISH 2008-11-19
20 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1916-10-01
21 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa-Metrosiders polymorpha mesic forest with Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Wikstroemia furcata, Dianella sandwicensis, Planchonella sandwicensis, Gahnia beechiyi. Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 16632 Kauai BISH 2015-09-29
22 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details North-facing slope of the The Great Escarpment, Waimea Canyon. W/Kalanchoe pinnata, Grevillea robusta, Melia azedarach, Lantana camare, Metrosideros polymorpha Preserved_Specimen Sporck-Koehler, M. 27 Kauai BISH 2017-06-06
23 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic foest with Alphitonia ponderosa, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Antidesma platyphylla, Bobea brevipes, Myrsine lanaiensis, Dodonaea viscosa, Planchonella sandwicensis, Wikstroemia furcata, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Ka Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 16363 Kauai BISH 2015-03-12
24 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In forest. Acaia koa - Metrosideros mesic forest. With Xylosma hawaiiense, Planchonella sandwicensis, Psychotria greenwelliae, Scaevola procera, Nestegis sandwicensis, Ilex anomala, Syzgium sandwicensis, Myoporum sandwicense, Pleomele aurea, Kadua a Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 23706 Kauai BISH 2013-09-18
25 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Degraded Acacia koa-Metrosideros polymorpha mesic forest with subcanopy of Psidium cattleianum Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 6896 Kauai BISH 2000-02-25
26 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros, Hibiscus waimeae, Diospyros, Santalum, Canthium, Canavalia, Melia, Lantana, Bryophyllum, Oplismenus, Microlepia Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 4570 Kauai BISH 1991-04-25
27 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic forest transitioning into Metrosideros-Dicranopteris wet forest w/ Alphitonia, Planchonella, Xylosma hawaiiensis, Claoxylon, Myrsine lanaiensis, Wikstroemia furcata, Dodonaea, Kadua affinis, Melicope ovata, M. anisata, Chrysodracon aurea, Polyscias kavaiensis, Psy Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 16813 Kauai BISH 2016-04-26
28 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rainy, koa Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27151 Kauai BISH 1960-11-15
29 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist, Metrosideros Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 26011 Kauai BISH 1956-12-29
30 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa - Metrosideros polymorpha - montane mesic with Alphitonia ponderosa, Melicope feddei, Planchonella sandwicensis, Nestegis sandwicensis, Bobea brevipes, Melicope barbigera, Dodonaea viscosa, Kadua affinis, Doodia kunthiana Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 1544 Kauai BISH 2013-03-21
31 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 1584 Kauai BISH 1955-12-29
32 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa - Metrosideros mesic forest. With Xylosma hawailense, Planchonella sandwicensis, Psychotria greenwelliae, Scaevola procera, Nestegis sandwicensis, Ilex anomala, Syzygium sandwicensis, Myoporum sandwicense, Pleomele aurea, Kadua a Preserved_Specimen Perlman, S. 23882 Kauai BISH 2014-03-11
33 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Transistion between wet and dry forest Preserved_Specimen Stern, W.L. 1288 Kauai BISH 1961-08-01
34 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia mesic forest w/ Alphitonia ponderosa, Diospyros sandwicensis, Dracaena aurea, Psychotria mariniana Dodonaea viscosa, Wikstroemia furcata, Planchonella sandwicensis Dryopteris glabra, Doodia kunthiana, Panicum n Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 15961 Kauai BISH 2014-06-14
35 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist woods Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 24889 Kauai BISH 1952-12-26
36 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic forest with Alphitonia ponderosa, Melicope barbigera, Melicope ovata, Melicope peduncularis, Psychotria greenwelliae, Dodonaea viscosa, Coprosma waimeae, Coprosma foliosa, Wikstroemia furcata, Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Antides. Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 17238 Kauai BISH 2017-02-14
37 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry forest Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 1031 Kauai BISH 1968-04-07
38 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details moist forest Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3332 Kauai BISH 1960-04-12
39 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Alphitonia, Cyanea leptostegia, Wikstroemia furcata, Alyxia oliviformis Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 3693 Kauai BISH 1987-10-25
40 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details rainy, koa Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27151 Kauai BISH 1960-11-15
41 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details woods Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27153 Kauai BISH 1960-11-19
42 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic forest. About 50% canopy. No slope. W/ Acacia koa, Santalum sp., Leptecophylla tameiameiae, Metrosideros polymorpha, Dodonaea viscosa, Psidium cattleianum Preserved_Specimen Walsh, S. 244 Kauai BISH 2016-04-20
43 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Stone, B.C. 3393 Kauai BISH 1960-04-14
44 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 2065 Kauai BISH 1971-08-16
45 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Diverse mesic forest along valley bottom. Metrosideros polymopha overstory with Nestegis, Antidesma, Coprosma filifolia. Open understory with Athyrium, Alyxia stellata, Rubus argutus, and Christella dentata. Preserved_Specimen Trauernicht, C. 616 Kauai BISH 2008-11-06
46 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa-Metrosideros polymorpha-Dicranopteris linearis montane mesic w Bobea brevipes, Alphitonia ponderosa, Ilex anomala, Wikstroemia furcata, Nestegis sandwicensis, Claoxylon sandwicensis, Polyscias waimeae, Melicope anisata, M. barbigera, M. feddei, Kadua affinis Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 19417 Kauai BISH 2024-01-04
47 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Acacia koa, Metrosideros, Pelea, Antidesma, Nestegis, Hedyotis Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 5227 Kauai BISH 1987-05-15
48 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details ohia Preserved_Specimen Hume, L. 214 Kauai BISH 1986-04-05
49 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Kuia Valley, Metrosideros-Acacia mesic forest with Nestigis sandwicensis, Diospyros sandwicensis, Zanthoxylum dipetalum, Leptecophylla, Tetraplasandra kavaiensis, Euphorbia haeleeleana, Psychotria mariniana, Melicope anisata, M. ovata, Coprosma w Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 15022 Kauai BISH 2012-06-05
50 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Xylosma, Alyxia, Dracaena, Acacia Preserved_Specimen Carlquist, S. 1669 Kauai BISH 1964-12-06
51 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details mixed mesic forest; Acacia koa, Metrosideros polymorpha, Alphitonia ponderosa, Dodonaea, Leptecophylla, Alyxia Preserved_Specimen Lorence, D.H. 9498 Kauai BISH 2005-02-09
52 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Transistion between wet and dry forest Preserved_Specimen Stern, W.L. 1308 Kauai BISH 1961-08-01
53 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Diverse Mesic Forest W/ Polyscias kavaiensis, Kadua affinis, Coprosma, Pisonia, Melicope barbigera, Alyxia stellata, Coprosma waimeae, Alphitonia ponderosa, Dodonaea viscosa, Pleomele aurea, Psychotria mariniana, Antidesm Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 3588 Kauai BISH 2013-12-05
54 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Pterotropia, Tetraplasandra, Pelea clusiifolia, Pelea microcarpa Preserved_Specimen Scheuer, P.J. 1484 Kauai BISH 1964-02-10
55 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mixed mesophytic forest dominated by Acacia koa with Metrosideros polymorpha, Pelea barbigera, and Alphitonia ponderosa. Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 2250 Kauai BISH 1987-07-16
56 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details dry forest Preserved_Specimen Herbst, D.R. 1031 Kauai BISH 1968-04-07
57 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen MacDaniels, L.H. 771 Kauai BISH 1927-02-17
58 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Mann, H. 560 Kauai BISH 1864-01-01
59 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Skottsberg, C.J.F. 978 Kauai BISH 1922-10-27
60 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 24095 Kauai BISH 1955-09-23
61 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 806 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
62 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 3670 Kauai BISH 1987-09-26
63 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros Cheirodendron montane wet forest, 80-95% closed, 8-12 m tall canopy, some emergent Metrosieros 20 m tall Psychotria mariniana, Santalum pyruliarium, Bobea brevipes, Kadua affinis, Coprosma waimeae, Melicope barbigera, Dodonaea viscosa, Dianella sandwicensis, Sphenomeris chinensis, Doodia kunthiana, Dropt Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 15333 Kauai BISH 2013-01-10
64 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia montane mesic forest w/ Alphitonia ponderosa, Antidesma platyphylla, Euphorbia atrococca, Claoxylon sandwicensis, Dodonaea viscosa, Myrsine lanaiensis, Nestegis sandwicensis, Chrysodracon aurea, Polyscias kavaiensis, Plan Preserved_Specimen Wood, K.R. 17313 Kauai BISH 2017-03-30
65 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details woods Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5555 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
66 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Steep crumbly, north facing slope of ridge. Open canopy. W/ Diospyros sandwicensis, Santalum pyrularium, Flueggea neowawraea, Polyscias racemosa, Metrosideros polymorpha, Chrysodracon aurea, Bobea sp., Psydrax odorata, , Kalanchoe pinnata, Lantana camara, Gre Preserved_Specimen Walsh, S. 424 Kauai BISH 2017-05-08
67 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 27156 Kauai BISH 1960-11-30
68 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Acacia Forest 2/ Remya kauaiensis, Isodendrion laurifolium, Neraudia kauaiensis, Pipturus, Dodonaea, Boehmeria grandis, Sideroxylon, Poa manni, Carex meyenii, Euphorbia haeleeleana, Xylosma, Streblus pendulinus, Cr Preserved_Specimen Tangalin, N. 2078 Kauai BISH 2009-07-01
69 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 1981 Kauai BISH 1909-02-01
70 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. 8540 Kauai BISH 1926-07-03
71 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 806 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
72 Melicope barbigera Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 3671 Kauai BISH 1987-09-26
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