Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Pipturus kauaiensis
Collector Name:
Natalia Tangalin
Collection Date:
March 4, 2011
Island Group:
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
District:
Hanalei District
Locality:
Above the Museum, off of HWY 550, after 1st Kalalau lookout, down into drainage past gate.
Plant Description:
Tree next to stream 10 ft tall. Leaves dark to yellow-green above and white w/ dark red midrib and lateral veins below. Stem dark purple where not woody. Fruit on stem, white, opaque w/ imbedded tan seeds. Branches slender, stipules falling. With Philidoria mines in leaves, sent to UH, none reared out.
Habitat:
Metrosideros-Dicranopteris Montane Wet Forest
Associated Species:
W/ Broussaisia arguta, Ilex, Coprosma kauensis, Phyllostegia electra, Scaevola glabra, Kadua affinis, K. foggiana, Saddleria, Erigeron, Labordia degeneri, Dubautia raillardioides, Cyrtandra kauaiensis, W/ Broussaisia arguta, Ilex, Coprosma kauensis, Phyllostegia electra, Scaevola glabra, Kadua affinis, K. foggiana, Pipturus, Saddleria, Erigeron, Dubautia raillardioides, Cyrtandra kauaiensis, C. paludosa
Date of Record Creation:
October 20, 2015
Date of Last Update:
March 23, 2023
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