| Dicotyledon | Literature for Gunnera petaloïdea
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Gunneraceae -- The Gunnera Family | Bibliography |
| Gunnera petaloïdea | |
Common name(s): `ape, `ape`ape, haha |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Giant herbs 1-6 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves dark green on upper surface, lower surface pale green, cordate-reniform, not peltate, ca. 4-10 dm long, ca. 2-9 dm wide, upper surface glabrous to very sparsely hirsute, lower surface brownish tomentose when young, sparsely to densely hirsute on the raised reticulate veins, 7-11-lobed and margins usually crenate-dentate, sometimes crenate or denticulate, basal sinus V-shaped to U-shaped, petioles 2-10 dm long, pustulate and usually densely hirsute at base, more sparsely hirsute toward blade, scales elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1.5-10 cm long, scurfy hirsute, becoming glabrate. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers perfect or unisexual, both staminate and pistillate flowers intermingled with perfect ones and scattered throughout the inflorescence, in numerous spikes arranged along an elongated central axis 2-10.5 dm long, each spike subtended by an oblong, oblong-spatulate to rarely narrowly lanceolate bract 8-35 mm long, margins lacerate and usually ciliate; calyx deltate to ovate or ovate-elliptic, sometimes broadly lanceolate, 0.4-1.3(-2) mm long, margins lacerate and sometimes ciliate; petals greenish to occasionally rose magenta, obovate, strongly concave, 0.8-2.2 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit yellow to orange, subglobose, 2.5-4 mm in diameter. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds 1.5-1.9 mm long, somewhat compressed, 4-angled, 1 of the angles obscure, 1 inconspicuous, the other 2 prominent. |
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