| Dicotyledon | Literature for Polyscias hawaiensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Araliaceae -- The Ginseng Family | Bibliography |
| Polyscias hawaiensis | |
Common name(s): `ohe |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Trees 7-20 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves 20-60 cm long, leaflets 5-9, narrowly ovate to oblong-elliptic, 10-18 cm long, 3.5-7 cm wide (the lowest pair often smaller, ovate), lower surface densely yellowish brown stellate farinose, rarely glabrous (young foliage farinose throughout), apex rounded to nearly acute, base cuneate to truncate (lateral leaflets obliquely so), petiolules 5-20 mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers arranged in terminal umbellules and 1 to few lateral along ultimate branches, these caducous, inflorescences erect, racemose-umbellate, with 1-3 primary branches up to 35 cm long, secondary branches 7-10 cm long, ultimate branches 1-2.5 cm long, arranged umbellately at tip and a few racemosely along secondary branches, lower ones often caducous, leaving an evident scar, pedicels 5-18 mm long; buds often tinged reddish, globose to ovoid; calyx a short, undulate rim; petals 5-8, yellowish green, often tinged reddish externally, coriaceous, triangular, 5-8 mm long; stamens (2)3-4 times as many as petals, in a single whorl; ovary inferior,
7-13-carpellate, moderately to densely whitish stellate farinose, surmounted by a low-conical to flat, pale green nectary disk; styles 7-13, connate into a cylindrical stylopodium 1-2 mm high, crowned by a ring of 7-13 stigmatic bulges. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit globose to depressed-globose (7-13-ribbed when dry), 5-8(-10) mm long, whitish stellate farinose, disk depressed, tinged dark red. |
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| Seeds |
Pyrenes chartaceous, laterally compressed. |
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