| Dicotyledon | Literature for Heliotropium anomalum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Heliotropium anomalum var. argenteum Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Heliotropiaceae | Bibliography |
| Heliotropium anomalum | |
Common name(s): heliotrope, hinahina, hinahina ku kahakai, nohonohopu`uone (Ni`ihau), pohinahina |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Widely distributed from Hawai`i nearly throughout Polynesia.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Prostrate subshrubs, sometimes forming mats; stems prostrate, decumbent, or sometimes ascending, producing many short side branches along the length of the main stem, 1-5(-10) dm long, flowering stems ascending to erect. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves distributed along the stem or, on young or flowering stems, densely clustered toward the tips and appearing whorled, thick but not fleshy, linear-lanceolate to spatulate, 1-3(-5) cm long, (0.1-)0.2-0.5(-0.8) cm wide, densely soft, silky, appressed villous, gradually tapering to base. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers sweetly fragrant, in short, congested, bracteate cymes 0.8-1.3 cm long, peduncles (1.5-)3-6.5 cm long; calyx stiff, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes linear, unequal, 1-2 usually slightly broader than others, 2.5-3.5 mm long, densely appressed pubescent; corolla white to pale purple, funnelform, 5-6-lobed, twice as long as the calyx, 6-11 mm long, the tube 5-8 mm long, appressed villous externally, especially on the tube; stamens as many as corolla lobes, subsessile. |
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| Fruit |
Nutlets 4, 1-seeded, obovoid, slightly compressed, ca. 1 mm long, appressed villous. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 28* |
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