| Dicotyledon | Literature for Metrosideros rugosa
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Myrtaceae -- The Myrtle Family | Bibliography |
| Metrosideros rugosa | |
Common name(s): lehua papa |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to O`ahu. |
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| Habit |
Shrubs or rarely small trees, branched from base, bark pale, separating in thin flakes; branchlets quadrangular, narrowly winged, vegetative buds ± obovoid with many fimbriate rounded scales up to 10 mm long and 7 mm wide. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves obovate to suborbicular, 2-2.8 cm long, 1.3-2.2 cm wide, midrib and secondary veins strongly raised on lower surface and impressed on upper surface, upper surface dark green, shiny, glabrous, lower surface densely woolly with tan to reddish brown, long, appressed hairs, margins revolute, apex rounded, base cuneate to rounded, petioles ca. 2 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers red, in inflorescences of 2-3 pairs of cymules, with a dense, woolly, tan tomentum, peduncles less than 5 mm long and 2 mm wide, pedicels less than 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, bracts elliptic, less than 3 mm long and 2.5 mm wide; hypanthium ca. 5 mm long and wide; sepals rounded to triangular, ca. 2 mm long and wide; petals obovate, less than 3 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, margins densely fimbriate; stamens 1.8-2.3 cm long; style 2.3-2.7 cm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit not known. |
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