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| Distribution | Occurring throughout tropical and subtropical Pacific and Indian Ocean coasts.In the Hawaiian Islands,
indigenous to
Kure, Midway, Pearl and Hermes, Lisianski, Laysan, French Frigate Shoals, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i.
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| Habitat | Coastal sites |
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Habit
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Shrub up to 3 m tall.
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Leaves
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Leaves oblanceolate, obovate, or occasionally suborbicular, 5-20 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, glabrous or moderately pubescent, margins often slightly inrolled, apex rounded and denticulate, the teeth often purple, base tapering gradually, with tufts of silky white hairs in the axils.
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Flowers
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Flowers in cymes in the upper leaf axils, 1-2 cm long, on silky pubescent pedicels less than 10 mm long, these subtended by paired bracteoles; calyx conspicuous, nearly as long as ovary, the tube ca. 1 mm long, lobes equal or subequal, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3-6 mm long, sparsely pubescent; corolla pale yellowish green externally, white or cream-colored within, often with purple streaks on lobes and throat, tube straight, 8-12 mm long, lobes lanceolate, 8-12 mm long, margins winged; stamens ± as long as corolla tube; style 15-18 mm long; stigma 2-lobed or truncate, margins ciliate.
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Fruit
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Fruit white, compressed-globose, 10-13 mm long, 5-7 mm wide, glabrous.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 16*, 32
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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