Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Heliconia indica
Identified As:
cv. Spectabilis
Collector Name:
Lynwood Hume
Collection Date:
September 14, 1989
Determiner:
W. J. Kress vi.1990
Island Group:
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
District:
Kawaihau District
Locality:
At 147 Royal Drive, Kapaa.
Plant Description:
Plants of 4 m height forming thicket ca. 4 m wide, with bright green or maroon leaves, from distance appears bronze. Pseudostems pale green finely speckled and veined bronze, glabrous, glossy. Leaves planar; petiole colored as pseudostem, but with ligule maroon to reddish; lamina above pale to dark green, or washed maroon, or with maroon margin, glossy, with midrib pale green to pink to maroon, striped or not; lamina below bright yellow green to green to bronzed, glossy, woth midrib yellow green to pink, striped or not. Inflorescences though numerous (12+ at time of flowering) inconspicuous, hidden among leaves; infl. terminal, erect; peduncle pale green with dark green flecks, pubescence white or brownish; rachis pale green with darker flecks to whitish where inserted at bract; cincinnal bracts 8-10, distichous, with straight margins, outside pale green to bluish-green with some bronze overlay, dull at base to glossy at tip, inside pale greenish-pink to deep maroon, somewhat glossy; basal bract sterile, terminating in a leaf conspicuously striped laterally maroon and green, glossy; flowers not resu-pinate; perianth to 5.8 cm, whitish at base through pale green to lime green at apex, with some pink tint throughout, glossy; ovary duller, pale yellow with slight pink tinge; fused sepals with apices reflexed; anthers connivant inside perianth apex; staminode with apex shallowly tri-dentate or rounded; drupe to 2.4 X 1.3 cm, turkey red, somewhat glossy, most with dried perianth still weakly attached through agency of persistant pistil; plant apparently sterile.
From Cultivated Plant:
Yes
Habitat:
Cultivated as an ornamental.
Comments:
Specimen consists of five sheets (001687-001691).
Date of Last Update:
August 6, 2023
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