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Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details
Hillebrandia sandwicensis
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Conservation Status
- IUCN: Not Evaluated
- USFWS: None
Family: BEGONIACEAE
Genus: Hillebrandia
Species: sandwicensis
Species Author: Oliv.
Vernacular: Akaakaaka
Synonyms: Hillebrandia sandwicensis f. albiflora
Genus: Hillebrandia
Species: sandwicensis
Species Author: Oliv.
Vernacular: Akaakaaka
Synonyms: Hillebrandia sandwicensis f. albiflora
Flowers: Perianth pink or white, male flowers (8)10 perianth parts, consisting of (4)5 distinct, subequal sepals 6-15 mm long and (4)5 minute petals ca. 1-1.5 mm long, female flowers with 10 perianth parts, sepals connate, the calyx tube adnate to ovary, the lobes 6-8 mm long, arising from about the middle of ovary, petals distinct, ca. 1 mm long; stamens numerous; ovary partly inferior, 1-celled and imperfectly 5-celled in lower part by intrusion of the placenta, placentation parietal; styles 5, distinct, bifid, the branches bearing spiral stigmatic lines.
Fruit: Capsules globose, wingless, but with 1(2) prominent ridges on each side of the carpel, dehiscent at apex between styles.
Seeds: Seeds ovoid, reticulate.
Cite: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Fruit: Capsules globose, wingless, but with 1(2) prominent ridges on each side of the carpel, dehiscent at apex between styles.
Seeds: Seeds ovoid, reticulate.
Cite: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
A monotypic genus of obscure affinity endemic to Hawai`i.
Cite: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Cite: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Endemic to Hawaii
1999 Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Cite: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
1999 Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Cite: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- 003973 - collected by John J. Fay in 1974
- 003972 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1984
- 003971 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1984
- 003970 - collected by John H. R. Plews in 1986
- 003969 - collected by David H. Lorence in 1987
- 003968 - collected by David H. Lorence in 1987
- 003967 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1989
- 003966 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1989
- 003965 - collected by Lynwood Hume in 1989
- 029849 - collected by K. R. Wood in 1996
- 029849 - collected by K. R. Wood in 1996
- 029824 - collected by K. R. Wood in 1996
- 019638 - collected by K. R. Wood in 1996
- 019639 - collected by K. R. Wood in 1996
- 033429 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2000
- 087118 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2001
- 056694 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2003
- 052613 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2005
- 048268 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2006
- 061769 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2007
- 049862 - collected by Hank Oppenheimer in 2008
- 064216 - collected by Steve Perlman in 2009
- 050756 - collected by Hank Oppenheimer in 2010
- 060350 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2010
- 062182 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2011
- 062183 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2011
- 064440 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2012
- 064973 - collected by Steve Perlman in 2012
- 064371 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2012
- 065212 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2013
- 085437 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2014
- 080229 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2014
- 068973 - collected by Hank Oppenheimer in 2014
- 085351 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2015
- 086975 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2015
- 085119 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2015
- Unassigned - collected by Natalia Tangalin in 2016
- 076483 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2017
- 080052 - collected by Steve Perlman in 2017
- Unassigned - collected by Natalia Tangalin in 2018
- 080026 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2019
- S079685 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2019
- 087228 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2021
- S087052 - collected by K. R. Wood in 2021
- 022644 - collected by Steve Perlman in 2022
- 091948 - collected by Dustin Wolkis in 2023
We currently have 46 herbarium specimens for Hillebrandia sandwicensis in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.
