| Dicotyledon | Literature for Santalum ellipticum
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Santalaceae -- The Sandalwood Family | Bibliography |
| Santalum ellipticum | |
Common name(s): `iliahi, sandalwood, `iliahialo`e, coast sandalwood |
| General Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Laysan, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. | |
| Habitat | Dry shrubland and forest | |
| Elevation | 0-950 m |
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| Habit |
Sprawling shrub to small tree 1-5 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves dull grayish green on both surfaces, leathery to succulent and often glaucous, elliptic to orbicular, ovate, or obovate, 2.5-6.1 cm long, 1.7-4 cm wide, petioles 0-15 mm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers with a sweet fragrance, greenish in bud, about as long as wide, in terminal and + axillary, compound cymes, pedicels 0-1 mm long; floral tube campanulate to conical; corolla greenish, tinged with brown, orange, or salmon after opening, 4-7 mm long; ovary inferior. |
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| Fruit |
Drupes purple to black at maturity, often glaucous, 9-12 mm long, with an apical receptacular ring. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 40* |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
