Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Diospyros sandwicensis
Collector Name:
Natalia Tangalin
Collection Date:
April 17, 2012
Observers:
Chris Johns, Rick Merker
Island Group:
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
District:
Honolulu District
Locality:
Southern Koolau Mountains, on Hawaii Loa Ridge Trail, just past Psidium stand and before going down into Dicranopteris and native zone.
Plant Description:
15ft. tall tree. With dark leaf mines and few caterpillars rolling the edge of the leaf and silking it shut. Caterpillar from Lama on appears to have dropped onto nearby Lehua, forming silk tent on upper leaf surface in midrib.
Habitat:
Metrosideros - Dicranopteris Lowland Forest
Associated Species:
Psidium, Schinus, Eugenia, Syzygium, Psychotria, Polyscias, Scaevola, Leptocaphylla, Alyxia, Psychotria, Kadua affinis, Euphorbia, Bidens, Osteomeles, Carex.
Comments:
Tissue removed for DNA by K. R. Wood for Ovidiu Paun, University of Vienna (Dec 2023)
Date of Record Creation:
December 4, 2015
Date of Last Update:
December 15, 2023
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