| Dicotyledon | Literature for Sapindus oahuensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Sapindaceae -- The Soapberry Family | Bibliography |
| Sapindus oahuensis | |
Common name(s): soapberry, aulu, kaulu, lonomea (Kaua`i) |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu. | |
| Habitat | Mesid to dry forests | |
| Elevation | 60-610 m |
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| Habit |
Tree 6-15 m tall; bark gray, rough, covered with lenticels, youngest branches yellowish brown tomentose. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves green with yellow midrib, simple, thick chartaceous, ovate to elliptic or oblong ovate, 7.5-27 cm long, 3-14.5 cm wide, glabrous, margins entire, usually somewhat undulate, apex acute, base rounded to truncate, usually inequilaterally decurrent, petioles 0.8-10 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences in axillary panicles 5-35 cm long; flowers on pedicel 2-5 mm long, pubescent; sepals unequal, outer ones ovate, ca. 1.8-2 mm long, inner ones suborbicular, 2-3 mm long, densely pubescent; petals equal, narrowly ovate, ca. 3 mm long, pubescent on outer surface and margins; staminal filaments 2.5-3 mm long, pubescent in the lower 1/3, inserted on the thick margin of the 5 angled nectary disk; ovary 2-3 celled, glabrous; stigma lobes rounded. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit of 1(2) fleshy, obovoid mericarps 2-3 cm long, pericarp leathery, glossy. |
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| Seeds |
Seed obovoid, 1.2-2 cm long, testa black, rugose, base truncate. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
