| Dicotyledon | Literature for Eurya sandwicensis
Havran et al., 2024. |
| Pentaphylacaceae | Bibliography |
| Eurya sandwicensis | |
Common name(s): anini, wanini |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Moderately branched shrubs or trees 1.5–4(–6) m tall, young stems sericeous to
strigose, rarely glabrate, hairs golden yellow. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves closely spaced; blades coriaceous, ovate to oblong, rarely obovate, (2.5–)3.0–6.5(–9) cm long, (1.2–)1.5–3.0(–4) cm wide, midrib tinged
reddish, secondary veins yellow-green, lower surface conspicuously reticulate, strigose along midrib, sparsely so on secondary veins, upper surface glabrous to glabrate, margins weakly revolute, crenulate with black inflexed mucronate teeth, apex obtuse to rounded, rarely acute or emarginate, base subcordate to truncate, rarely cuneate; petioles 1–3(–4) mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers 1, rarely 2 in the leaf axils, nodding to suberect; pedicels 3–5(–7) mm long, ± strigose with golden hairs; bracteoles 2, minute; sepals 5, purplish brown, thick-coriaceous, suborbicular, unequal, 3–7 mm long, ± strigose, margins scarious, persistent, enlarging up to ca. 8 mm long in fruit; petals
5, pale yellow to cream, somewhat fleshy, obovate, (5–)8.0–10.5 mm long, connate at base; staminate flowers with (10–)15–16 stamens, filaments distinct, 1–2 mm long, adnate to base of
petals, ca. 1/2 as long as anthers, anthers opening by longitudinal slits; pistillate flowers with (5–)8–10 staminodes, staminodes 2–3.5 mm long, ovary 3- or rarely 4-celled, styles 3 or rarely 4, 1.5–2 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit a globose berry, dark bluish black, 7–10 mm in diameter. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds numerous. |
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| Notes |
The specific epithet was selected by Asa Gray (1854) to acknowledge the former
European name of the Hawaiian Islands. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |