| Dicotyledon | Literature for Hippobroma longiflora
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Campanulaceae -- The Bellflower Family | Bibliography |
| Hippobroma longiflora | |
Common name(s): pua hoku, star-of-Bethlehem |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Originally endemic to the West Indies, now naturalized as a weed throughout much of the tropics.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Herb; stems coarse, fleshy, 15‒50(‒80) cm long, glabrous or pubescent. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves with blade 6‒25 cm long, 1.5‒8 cm wide, glabrous or pubescent on the veins, apex obtuse to acute, mucronulate, base decurrent. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers with pedicel erect at anthesis, but declined in fruit, 5‒10 mm long, pubescent; hypanthium 10-nerved, 8‒11 mm long, 3‒5 mm wide, sparsely pubescent; calyx lobes 10‒22 mm long; corolla 7‒15 cm long, pubescent externally, glabrous within; anthers white. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit ellipsoid, 1.8‒2.5 cm long, 1‒1.5 cm wide, pendent. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds light brown to red brown, broadly ellipsoid, terete or slightly compressed, 0.6‒0.8 mm long, reticulate. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 28. |
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| Notes |
Toxic to livestock; the milky sap contains the alkaloids nicotine and lobeline. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
