Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon Literature for Nama sandwicensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
   Hydrophyllaceae Bibliography
      Nama sandwicensis

Common name(s): hinahina kahakai
General Information
DistributionHawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Lisianski, Laysan, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.

Namaceae - Nama sandwicensis Namaceae - Nama sandwicensis















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HabitatRaised limestone reefs or rarely dry shrubland
Elevation0-220 m
Habit
Annual or perhaps short-lived perennial herbs; stems prostrate, forming mats up to ca. 2 dm in diameter, freely branched, densely hirsute.
Leaves
Leaves somewhat thick, spatulate, 6-22(-55 in lowest leaves) mm long, 2-7 mm wide, densely hirsute, the hairs somewhat appressed, margins entire and strongly revolute, gradually tapering to base.
Flowers
Flowers 1-2 in the leaf axils, pedicels 2-5 mm long; calyx lobes narrowly oblong or occasionally narrowly oblong-spatulate, 4-4.5 mm long, enlarging up to ca. 6 mm long in fruit; corolla purplish blue, pink(?), or white, yellow on throat, the tube ca. 5 mm long, pubescent, glabrous within, the lobes spreading, ca. 2 mm long; stamens inserted ca. 1 mm above base of corolla tube; filaments unequal in length, one ca. 1 mm long and the other ca. 2 mm long; ovary puberulent, ca. 2 mm long; style divided nearly to base, 1-2 mm long.
Fruit
Capsules oblong ovoid, ca. 3-4 mm long.
Seeds
Seeds 20-60, yellowish brown, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm long, shallowly pitted.
Contributor
Nancy Khan