| Dicotyledon | Literature for Metrosideros macropus
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Myrtaceae -- The Myrtle Family | Bibliography |
| Metrosideros macropus | |
Common name(s): `ohi`a, `ohi`a lehua, lehua |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to O`ahu. |
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| Habit |
Small trees 5-7 m tall, bark fissured, flaky, vegetative buds narrow, pointed, with long-persistent, obovate to spatulate, attenuate scales up to 22 mm long and 7 mm wide. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves broadly ovate, 4.5-7 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, glabrous, apex rounded to acute or moderately attenuate, base rounded to truncate, petioles 15-35 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, often at right angles or more to the stems. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers yellow or occasionally red, in inflorescences of 4-6 pairs of cymules, usually glabrous or sometimes appressed silvery pubescent, peduncles ca. 12 mm long and 2 mm wide, pedicels ca. 3 mm long and 1 mm wide, bracts ovate to lanceolate, ca. 5.5 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, long-persistent; hypanthium ca. 3-4 mm high, 4-5 mm wide; sepals triangular, 2-3 mm long, 2-3.5 mm wide; petals obovate to orbicular, ca. 5 mm long and 3 mm wide; stamens 1.8-2.5 cm long; style 2-2.7 cm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruiting hypanthium 4-6 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, with prominent veins, glabrous to puberulent, capsules exserted 2-3 mm. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |