Flora of the Hawaiian Islands - Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Dicotyledon	Literature for Pipturus kauaiensis Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Urticaceae -- The Cecropia, Nettle Family	Bibliography
*Pipturus kauaiensis*

General Information
Distribution	In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i.	Click here for detailed USGS map by Jonathan Price


Habit	Shrubs 1.5-3 m tall; branches slender, with brown bark, puberulent with fine, appressed, white hairs, glabrate with age.
Leaves	Leaves thin, chartaceous, ovate to broadly lanceolate, 6-18.5 cm long, 2-6.5 cm wide, upper surface dark green, nearly smooth, cystoliths small and inconspicuous, finely strigillose with white hairs, glabrate with age, lower surface pure white and usually appearing strongly glaucous, veins slightly raised, moderately strigillose, very conspicuous in contrast to white areoles, areoles densely pure white woolly pubescent, completely obscuring surface, margins regularly coarsely serrate, apex long-acuminate, usually slightly oblique, base rounded to cuneate, petioles (1-)1.5-4.5(-6.5) cm long, strigillose, stipules chartaceous, ca. 6.5 mm long, ca. 5.5 mm wide, deeply 2-lobed, white strigillose toward base, caducous.
Flowers	Plants gynodioecious, flower clusters ca. 3-4 mm in diameter, usually dimorphic in size, pistillate clusters larger; staminate calyx 2-2.4 mm long, puberulent; pistillate calyx ca. 1 mm long, enlarging to 1.4-1.5 mm long in fruit, hirsute.
Fruit	Achenes pale brown or gray, ovoid, 0.9-1 mm long, constricted below.





Chromosomes	2n = 28*