Herbarium Sheet Detail
NTBG Plant Name:
Kadua littoralis
Collector Name:
Natalia Tangalin
Collection Date:
August 28, 2014
Island Group:
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
District:
Hanalei District
Locality:
Princeville, Edward Road from the Cliffs at Princeville down trail to Turtle Cove or about 1/4th mile East of Queens Bath. Kadua littoralis on wall above entrance to Northwest end of lava tube.
Plant Description:
About 25 mature individuals and 8 juveniles were observed growing on the wet wall with fresh water seeps in an area about 3M square. Mature plants have few immature and mostly mature brown dried capsules. Capsules with 4 chambers, dehiscing into an X at apex and spilling hundreds of tiny 1mm dark red-brown seed. Old capsules and scapes disintegrating in salt spray. Fruit on long scapes with papery bracts. Many plants rooting along stem w/ plantlets. Leaves clustered at base, yellow-green thick and slightly succulent. Leaves glossy yellow-green with impressed venation on adaxial surface and dull light green with slightly raised venation on abaxial surface. Some stressed plants with diffuse red in venation and leaves.
Habitat:
Wet seep area of sea cliff in Coastal Mesic Zone
Associated Species:
W/ Pandanus tectorius, Casaurina equisetifolia, Scaevola taccada, Cyperus javanicus, Sphagneticola trilobata,Terminalia catappa, Pluchea carolinensis, Ischaemum byrone, Sphenomeris chinensis, Adiantum capillus-veneris, Selaginella.
Date of Record Creation:
July 21, 2023
Date of Last Update:
April 17, 2024
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