| Dicotyledon | Literature for Nama sandwicensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Hydrophyllaceae | Bibliography |
| Nama sandwicensis | |
Common name(s): hinahina kahakai |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Lisianski, Laysan, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habitat | Raised limestone reefs or rarely dry shrubland | |
| Elevation | 0-220 m |
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| Habit |
Annual or perhaps short-lived perennial herbs; stems prostrate, forming mats up to ca. 2 dm in diameter, freely branched, densely hirsute. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Fruit |
Capsules oblong ovoid, ca. 3-4 mm long. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds 20-60, yellowish brown, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm long, shallowly pitted. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |