| General Information |
| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
Kaua`i.
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| Habitat | Dry forests |
| Elevation | 230-350 m
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Habit
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Shrubs to trees 4-8 m tall; stems stellate pubescent apically, otherwise glabrous.
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Leaves
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Leaf blades green, shiny, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, sometimes oblong-elliptic to ovate or obovate, 3-7(-10) cm long, 1.5-3.5(-5) cm wide, upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrate, margins entire or serrate toward apex, apex acuminate or sometimes acute, base cuneate or obtuse, petioles 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm long, pubescent in an adaxial line, stipules subulate to linear, 4-11 mm long.
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Flowers
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Flowers solitary, borne near the ends of the branches, pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm long, articulate; involucral bracts (5)6, linear-subulate to subulate, 6-13 mm long, 1-2(-3) mm wide; calyx pale green, tubular to suburceolate, 1.5-2.2(-2.5) cm long, lobes deltate, 0.3-0.5 cm long, surface smooth, sparsely stellulate pubescent; petals abruptly flaring, dark red, narrowly obovate to strap shaped, 4.5-6 cm long, 1-1.8 cm wide; staminal column exserted, pinkish above, white below; filaments clustered below apex of staminal column, red, 0.3-0.6 cm long; style branches spreading in a flat whorl, pinkish, 5-6 mm long, pilose; stigmas discoid-papillate, up to 1.5 mm in diameter.
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Fruit
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Capsules pale brown, oblong-obovoid, enclosed by the calyx, 1.2-1.4 cm long, puberulent.
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Seeds
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Seeds brownish black, obovoid reniform, 4-4.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent with stellate and simple hairs.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 84
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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