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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands,
endemic to
O`ahu, Maui.
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Habit
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Sprawling perennial herbs, becoming woody toward base; stems 3-10 dm long, multi-stemmed from the base, the primary stems usually much branched, weakly ascending to nearly decumbent, producing matted clumps, pale purple, glabrate below, glandular-puberulent and somewhat viscid in the inflorescence.
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Leaves
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Leaves opposite; blades 3-8.8 cm long, 0.4-2.4 cm wide, thin and membranous, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, falcate, with 3 principal veins, the midvein excentric, glandular-puberulent or glabrate, especially toward base, the hairs translucent, straight, ± erect, 0.05-0.15 mm long, margins weakly revolute, apex attenuate and ± recurved; petioles 0-0.3 (-0.6) cm long.
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Flowers
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Inflorescence terminal, with 18-149 flowers, 5-22 cm long, open, moderately to densely glandular-puberulent, the hairs 0.15-0.25 mm long; bracts green, narrowly linear-elliptic to subulate, falcate and often somewhat twisted, those of central axis 2-31 mm long, those of branches and flowers 1-12 mm long; pedicel filiform, 7-16 mm long, inconspicuously flattened. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3.3-4.5 mm long, lanceolate, green to purple, opaque, strongly reflexed and convex in the proximal 1/4, producing a small transverse bulge, the distal part concave, sometimes shallowly navicular at apex, oriented at ca. 30° angle to the pedicel, moderately to densely glandular-puberulent, the hairs 0.05-0.15 mm long, margins conspicuously scarious, ciliate, apex attenuate to subulate. Nectary base slightly broadened at base, 0.6 mm long, greenish yellow, the nectary shaft 4-5.75 mm long, at 90° to the axis, quickly recurving to 60°, apex bifid, but slit more deeply on abaxial side. Stamens 10; filaments dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl 4.5-5.8 mm long, the alternate whorl 4-5 mm long; anthers 0.85-1 mm long, yellow. Styles 3 (-4).
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Fruit
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Capsules ca. 2.5-3 mm long, narrowly ovoid.
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Seeds
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Seeds relatively few, ca. 0.6-0.7 mm long, suborbicular, compressed, the surface transversely rugose.
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Chromosomes
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2n = probably 60
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