| Dicotyledon | Literature for Colubrina oppositifolia
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Rhamnaceae -- The Buckthorn Family | Bibliography |
| Colubrina oppositifolia | |
Common name(s): kauila, kauwila |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to O`ahu, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Trees 5-13 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves decussate, dull, membranous, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 6-12 cm long, 3-7 cm wide (up to ca. 20 cm long and 8.5 cm wide in seedlings), pinnately veined, glabrous, lower surface with 2 kinds of glands, small, submarginal, blackish ones and a peculiar gland-like proliferation in the axil of each secondary vein, margins entire, apex acute to short-acuminate, petioles 1.4-3 cm long (up to 4.5 cm long in seedlings), stipules of each pair of leaves connate into a lanceolate structure, dark pigmented, 6-8 mm long, caducous, leaving a prominent whitish scar. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers 10-12 in thyrses 10-15 mm long, peduncles 3-8 mm long, pedicels ca. 2-3 mm long, elongating to 6-13 mm long in fruit; sepals deltate, ca. 1.5-2 mm long; petals ca. 1.5 mm long; style short, 3-lobed. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit broadly subglobose, 8-11 mm long, explosively dehiscent. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds oblong-obovoid, 6-8 mm long, base shallowly notched. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 48* |
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