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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Dioecious or rarely monoecious, many-branched small trees or shrubs 2-8 m tall; branches ascending, stiff, ± tortuous, youngest ones puberulent.
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Leaves
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Leaves opposite, often clustered toward the tips of the branches, thin or thick, coriaceous, oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate to broadly elliptic-obovate, occasionally suborbicular, 10-50 mm long, (5-)8-16(-20) mm wide, pinnately veined, upper surface glabrous except coarsely puberulent toward base, lower surface glabrous, apex acute to rounded, base attenuate, petioles slightly winged, 0-12 mm long, upper surface puberulent, stipules broadly deltate, 2-5 mm long, connate ca. 1/2 their length, margins short-ciliate, apex acuminate, with a small appendage, base puberulent.
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Flowers
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Flowers 1-2, 5-6-merous, subsessile; staminate flowers with calyx short-tubular, 0.8-2 mm long, irregularly toothed, the teeth whitish ciliate, corolla narrowly
campanulate, 6-8.5 mm long, the lobes 3-4.5 mm long; pistillate flowers with calyx short-tubular, 0.8-2 mm long, irregularly toothed, the teeth whitish ciliate, corolla narrowly funnelform, 3.2-4.5 mm long, the lobes 1-2.5 mm long.
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Fruit
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Fruit orange to reddish orange, ellipsoid to subglobose, 6-10 mm long, apex with conspicuous persistent calyx teeth.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 32*, 44*
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