| Dicotyledon | Literature for Melicope anisata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Rutaceae -- The Rue Family | Bibliography |
| Melicope anisata | |
Common name(s): alani, alani kuahiwi, mokehana, mokihana |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Shrubs or small trees 2-7 m tall, all parts with a strong anise odor, new growth densely minutely yellowish brown to whitish appressed puberulent and with somewhat of a waxy scurf, soon glabrate. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves opposite, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to broadly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or occasionally some of them elliptic-obovate, flat to strongly revolute, 4-33 cm long, 2-11.5 cm wide, primary lateral veins usually 15-20 pairs, prominent, slightly upcurved distally, connected by a strongly arched vein 2-8 mm from margin, both surfaces glabrate, except midrib on lower surface persistently somewhat appressed hirtellous, or lower surface also with scattered hairs, apex rounded and ± emarginate or acute, base cuneate, petioles 15-50 mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers 1-3 in minutely puberulent, but soon glabrate, axillary cymes 1.6-4 cm long, sometimes arising on stems below leaves, peduncles 5-25 mm long, pedicels usually 15-25 mm long, bracteoles subulate, puberulent; staminate flowers with sepals deltate, 4-4.5 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, glabrous, petals oblong-deltate to narrowly deltate, 8-15 mm long, ca. 5 mm wide, nectary disk and rudimentary ovary glabrous, style slender, 3-5 mm long; pistillate flowers with sepals ovate, 3-4 mm long, glabrous, apex acute, petals greenish yellow to reddish, oblong-deltate to narrowly deltate, 6-10 mm long, ca. 3.8 mm wide, stamens rudimentary, nectary disk and ovary glabrous, style slender, ca. 6 mm long, often exserted. |
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| Fruit |
Capsules 28-50 mm wide, carpels connate ca. 1/3-1/2 their length, 13-24 mm long, usually strongly reflexed, exocarp and endocarp glabrous. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds 1-2 per carpel, 7-9 mm long. |
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