Literature for Wikstroemia uva-ursi
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Wikstroemia uva-ursi var. kauaiensis Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Wikstroemia uva-ursi var. uva-ursi Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
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Thymelaeaceae -- The `akia (Hawaiian Islands) Family | Bibliography |
Wikstroemia uva-ursi |
General Information | |
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Distribution | |
Habit |
Densely branching, prostrate or sprawling shrubs up to 1.5 m tall; young branches very densely gray, yellow, or reddish brown appressed pubescent. |
Leaves |
Leaves dark to grayish green on upper surface, lower surface lighter, sometimes glaucous, thick and firm, elliptic, ovate to orbicular, or obovate, (0.9-)1.7-3(-5) cm long, (0.5-)1.2-2.8(-3.8) cm wide, veins visible, glabrous, with scattered hairs, or pilose, apex rounded to acute, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes acute, rarely subcordate, petioles 1-2.5(-4) mm long, glabrous or with scattered hairs. |
Flowers |
Flowers unisexual, on Maui sometimes perfect, yellow, glabrous, with scattered hairs, or puberulent, peduncles 1-6 mm long, hirsute, rachis clavate, conical to cylindrical, sometimes forked, 2-20(-50) mm long, hirsute, pedicels 0.8-3 mm long, glabrous, with a few hairs, or pilose; calyx tube of staminate flowers 5.5-9(-11.5) mm long, outer lobes 1.5-4.5 mm long, 1-3.8 mm wide, inner lobes 1.2-4 mm long, 1.2-3.5 mm wide; calyx tube of pistillate flowers 3.5-8 mm long, outer lobes 1.5-3.8 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, inner lobes 1.2-3.2 mm long, 1.2-3 mm wide; calyx tube of perfect flowers 5-9 mm long, outer lobes 1.6-4.5 mm long, 1.5-3.7 mm wide, inner lobes 1.3-4 mm long, 1.3-3.5 mm wide. |
Fruit |
Fruit bright red to dark crimson, ellipsoid, 8-11 mm long, 5-10 mm in diameter. |
Chromosomes |
2n = 18*, 72* |