| Monocotyledon | Literature for Pritchardia hillebrandii
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Arecaceae -- The Palm Family | Bibliography |
| Pritchardia hillebrandii | |
Common name(s): loulu, loulu lelo |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Moloka`i. | |
| Elevation | 75-100 m |
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| Habit |
Medium-sized palms; trunk 6-7 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves rather rigid and thickish, glaucous to pale green, lower surface ± with a few scattered, pale-colored, minute scales, petioles very densely covered with a felted, ashy-silvery indumentum, which extends profusely from underside of petiole onto blade and along ridges of segment folds. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences about as long as or even shorter than the petioles, 60-100 cm long, of 3 distinct, loose panicles, these on a common, rather slender, peduncular part; rachillae rigid, thickish; prophyll and peduncular bracts thin and chartaceous, more or less fugaciously silvery lepidote, becoming glabrate with weathering. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit yellowish or reddish brown, becoming intensely bluish or nearly black, globose, 2-2.2 cm long, 1-2 mm wider than long, apex with the persistent sterile carpels and style, and marked by 2 pronounced ridges descending from the apex, the surface highly polished at maturity, endocarp very thin, woody, brittle. |
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| Seeds |
Seed globose, 11-13 mm in diameter. |
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