| Dicotyledon | Literature for Kadua affinis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Rubiaceae -- The Coffee Family | Bibliography |
| Kadua affinis | |
Common name(s): manono |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Shrubs, lianas, or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves variable, membranous to chartaceous or coriaceous, obovate, oblanceolate to elliptic, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or sometimes suborbicular, flat or weakly concave, 2-18(-23) cm long, 0.8-8 cm wide, lateral veins spreading, moderately to strongly arcuate, ± conspicuous, not or slightly impressed, sometimes moderately so, higher order venation inconspicuous or sometimes conspicuous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous or short-hirtellous, sometimes
only along veins, apex rounded, obtuse, acute, or short-acuminate, base cordate to truncate, cuneate, or attenuate, petioles 0.2-2(-3) cm long, stipules 2.5-16 mm long, adnate to petioles only at base. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers in terminal, open to very open or congested, lax or stiff, paniculate inflorescences 3-25 cm long, sometimes also with short inflorescences on short, leafy, lateral branches, rarely with axillary inflorescences, short-hispidulous or glabrous, peduncles usually 4-35 mm long, elongating to 7-70 mm or more long in fruit, ± hirtellous, pedicels 1-4 mm long, elongating to 3-12 mm long in fruit, ± hirtellous; calyx lobes deltate, deltate-ovate, or linear-deltate, 0.5-2.2 mm long, erect or sometimes somewhat spreading, margins ± ciliolate; corolla purple or green on tube, the lobes yellowish green or sometimes purple-tinged, fleshy, fusiform in bud, salverform, glabrous or short-hirtellous externally, the tube 4-15 mm long, the limb gradually expanded, weakly quadrangular, the lobes linear, 2-7 mm long, apparently smaller in functionally staminate plants, each with a terminal fleshy appendage. Fruit drupaceous, dark blue to purplish black, 4-12 mm in diameter, indehiscent, persistent calyx lobes erect to slightly spreading. [2n = ca. 93*, 95*, 96*, 98*, 100*, 102-105*.] |
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| Fruit |
Fruit drupaceous, dark blue to purplish black, 4-12 mm in diameter, indehiscent, persistent calyx lobes erect to slightly spreading. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = ca. 93*, 95*, 96*, 98*, 100*, 102-105* |
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