| Dicotyledon | Literature for Cassytha filiformis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Lauraceae -- The Laurel Family | Bibliography |
| Cassytha filiformis | |
Common name(s): kauna`oa malolo, kauna`oa pehu, kauna`oa uka, kaunaoa, malolo, pololo |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Pantropical.In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Kure, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Stems green to orange, filiform, glabrous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves reduced to minute scales, ca. 1 mm long, easiest seen near tips of stems. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers sessile, few in spicate inflorescences 1(-2) cm long, each one subtended by an ovate bract and 2 ovate bracteoles, these with ciliolate tips; tepals glabrous, strongly unequal, outer 3 ovate, ca. 1 mm long, strongly resembling bracts and bracteoles, inner 3 elliptic, ca. 2.5 mm long, their tips incurved; fertile stamens glabrous, outer 6 introrse, broad, with very short filaments and acute apex, inner 3 extrorse, with 2 sessile glands at base, tip elongated beyond anther cells into a slender beak, fourth whorl of stamens reduced to glabrous staminodia; ovary globose, glabrous. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit enclosed in the accrescent floral tube, dried floral parts persisting in fruiting stage. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24, 48* |
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