Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Literature for Neraudia angulata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Neraudia angulata var. angulata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Neraudia angulata var. dentata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
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      Neraudia angulata
General Information
Distribution
Habit
Erect shrubs 1.5-3 m tall; branches pubescent with erect and ± appressed hairs.
Leaves
Leaves grayish to greenish on lower surface, thin, elliptic, elliptic-ovate, or ovate, 7-15 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, upper surface sparsely silky pubescent, the hairs somewhat spreading or appressed, 0.2-0.4 mm long, lower surface moderately silky pubescent, the hairs appressed or somewhat spreading, 0.3-0.6 mm long, their tips primarily directed toward apex and margins, margins coarsely dentate above the middle or entire, apex long-acuminate or acute, base cuneate to rounded, petioles 0.8-3 cm long, pubescent with appressed and spreading hairs.
Flowers
Staminate flowers on pedicels 0-1 mm long, calyx silky pubescent, the hairs ascending, the lobes 2-3.5 mm long; pistillate flowers sessile, calyx conspicuously angled, silky pubescent, the hairs ascending to erect, also with some short, erect, uncinate hairs, apex 4-toothed, the teeth acuminate to long-acuminate, stigma 2-8 mm long, lacking receptive hairs on 1 surface.
Fruit
Achenes 1.5-2 mm long, angled, surrounded by the conspicuously angled and ridged, fleshy calyx, apical portion conical, not separated from basal portion by a constriction.
Seeds
Seed ovoid.