| General Information |
| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees up to 6 m tall; branches slender, ascending, glabrous.
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Leaves
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Leaves usually relatively widely spaced, but also with some clustered at the tips of the branches, relatively thin, chartaceous, lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 10-32 cm long, 3.5-8.5 cm wide, upper surface glabrous or soon glabrate, lower surface glabrous or sparsely to moderately whitish to reddish pubescent, margins entire, apex obtuse, acute to acuminate, base cuneate, petioles 1-7 cm long.
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Flowers
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Flowers 1-3(-6) in axillary clusters, pedicels 10-30 mm long; calyx tubular, 8-12 mm long, unevenly 4-lobed; corolla greenish yellow, the tube pale yellow, not longer than calyx, silky pubescent in bud; stamens partly exserted; ovary ovoid; style erect; stigma clavate, included.
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Fruit
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Berries orange, fleshy, elongate or fusiform, completely or partly enclosed by calyx.
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Seeds
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Seeds not seen.
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Chromosomes
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2n = ca. 48*
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