| Dicotyledon | Literature for Clermontia hawaiiensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Campanulaceae -- The Bellflower Family | Bibliography |
| Clermontia hawaiiensis | |
Common name(s): `oha, `oha wai, haha, `oha kepau (Hawai`i), `oha wai nui (Hawai`i), `ohaha wai nui (Hawai`i) |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Terrestrial or epiphytic trees or shrubs 1.5-9 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, blades 9-24 cm long, 2.5-6.5 cm wide, upper surface dark green, glossy, glabrous, lower surface whitish green, glabrous or pubescent along the veins, margins callose-crenulate, apex acuminate, acute, obtuse, or rounded, base attenuate, petioles 2-7 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences 2(-4)-flowered, peduncles 15-60 mm long, pedicels 15-40 mm long; hypanthium obconical, 17-22 mm long, 11-18 mm wide, prominently 10-ridged, the dorsal ridge forming a definite keel; perianth greenish white, sometimes tinged maroon apically, curved, distinctly tubular, 50-65 mm long, 9-18 mm wide, glabrous, the lobes (except the dorsal) erect or downcurved, 1/5-1/3 as long as the tube, prominently ridged externally; staminal column maroon or rarely greenish white, glabrous; anthers purple or rarely greenish white, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
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| Fruit |
Berries orange, obovoid or ellipsoid, 10-ridged, 25-37 mm long, 15-30 mm wide. |
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