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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
O`ahu.
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| Habitat | Mesic valleys and wet forests |
| Elevation | 300-915 m
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Habit
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Stems woody, 1-3 m long, muricate in juveniles, becoming merely scabrous or nearly smooth with age.
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Leaves
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Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, blades 15-60 cm long, 5.5-14 cm wide, upper surface glabrous, muricate in juveniles, abaxial surface glabrous or pubescent with all trichomes simple, margins callose-crenulate, coarsely callose-dentate in juveniles, apex acute to acuminate, petioles 1-9 cm long, pubescent or muricate.
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Flowers
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Inflorescences 4-16-flowered, peduncles 20-100 mm long, pedicels 5-30 mm long; hypanthium obovoid, obconical, or ellipsoid, 1/8-1/12 as long as the corolla, glabrous; calyx lobes triangular, 1-3 mm long, glabrous or pubescent, apex acute to obtuse; corolla pale to dark magenta, rarely pale greenish, often with lighter or darker longitudinal stripes, 5-8 cm long, glabrous; staminal column glabrous or pubescent; anthers pubescent, all 5 or only the lower 2 with apical tufts of white hairs.
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Fruit
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Berries obovoid to obpyriform, 16-20 mm long.
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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