| Dicotyledon | Literature for Coprosma kauensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Rubiaceae -- The Coffee Family | Bibliography |
| Coprosma kauensis | |
Common name(s): hupilo, pilo, koi (Kaua`i) |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i. | |
| Habit |
Dioecious shrubs or small trees 2-6 m tall; young stems strigose to coarsely puberulent or rarely appressed hirtellous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves opposite, chartaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate, oblong-elliptic, or spatulate, 42-120 mm long, 15-35 mm wide, pinnately veined, upper surface glabrate or sparsely strigose, lower surface strigose, especially along veins, apex acute to rounded, base attenuate, petioles 6-20 mm long, stipules 5-10 mm long, connate in lower 1/3-1/2, both surfaces strigose, usually with a glabrous patch on upper 1/2, margins sparsely ciliate and dentate with conspicuous appendages, apex attenuate to a conspicuous appendage. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers 3(-5), sometimes fewer pistillate flowers developing into fruit, 6-9-merous, peduncles glabrous or densely coarsely puberulent; staminate flowers with peduncles ca. 4-8 mm long, calyx cup-shaped, ca. 0.4-0.6 mm long, the teeth irregularly whitish ciliate, corolla campanulate, ca. 6-9 mm long, the lobes 2.5-3.5 mm long; pistillate flowers with peduncles 4-20 mm long, calyx cup-shaped, 0.3-0.6 mm long, the teeth irregularly whitish ciliate, corolla narrowly funnelform, 4-5 mm long, the lobes 1-2.3 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit bright reddish orange, ovoid, 7-9 mm long, apex naked. |
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