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Common Names in English:
'ohe Naupaka
Common Names in Hawaiian:
'ohe Naupaka
Description
Genus Scaevola
Herbs or shrubs
. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire or toothed
. Flowers in dichasial cymes, sessile or pedicellate
. Calyx lobes
obsolete
or conspi¬cuous. Corolla oblique
, split to the base
on one side; lobes subequal
, spreading
. Stamens with free
anthers
. Ovary usually inferior, 2-loculed; ovules l-2 in each, erect
; style simple
with pollen cup
enclosing a truncate
or 2 lobed
stigma. Fruit a drupe.
A genus with 80-100 tropical
and sub-tropical species; mostly Australian
and Polynesian.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Goodeniaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1810, nom. corr.
- Genus:
Scaevola
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1771, nom. cons.
- Naupaka
- Specific epithet:
glabra
- Hook. & Arn.
- Botanical name: - Scaevola glabra Hook. & Arn.
- Specific epithet:
glabra
- Hook. & Arn.
- Genus:
Scaevola
(
- Family:
Goodeniaceae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Scaevola kauaiensis (O. Deg.) St. John
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Scaevola
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. aemula (Blue Wonder) · S. aemula 'Blue Wonder' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Diamond' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'New Wonder' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Purple Fanfare' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Whirlwind Blue' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'White Fan' (Fan Flower) · S. aemula 'Zig Zag' (Fan Flower) · S. cerasifolia (Naupaka) · S. chamissoniana (Naupaka Kuahiwi) · S. coriacea (Dwarf Naupaka) · S. gaudichaudiana (Mountain Naupaka) · S. gaudichaudii (Naupaka Kuahiwi) · S. glabra ('ohe Naupaka) · S. hobdyi (Hobdy's Naupaka) · S. kilaueae (Huahekili Uka) · S. mollis (Purple Naupaka) · S. plumieri (Beachberry) · S. procera (Forest Naupaka) · S. ramosissima (Hairy Fan-Flower) · S. ramosissima 'Marion' (White Fan Flower) · S. sericea (Beach Naupaka) · S. sericea var. sericea (Beach Naupaka) · S. sericea var. taccada (Beach Naupaka) · S. sericea var. taccada (Gaertn.) Thieret & B.Lipscomb (Beach Grape) · S. 'Mauve Clusters' (Fan Flower) · S. 'Whirlwind White' (Fan Flower)
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Further Reading
- A preliminary catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop museum of Polynesian ethnology and natural history. .. Honolulu, 1892-93. url p. 55.
- An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 115, p. 17, p. 259.
- Botanical bulletin / Honolulu: Division of Forestry, 1911-1919. url p. 12.
- Flora of the Hawaiian islands: a description of their phanerogams and vascular cryptogams /by William Hillebrand; annotated and published after the author's death by W.F. Hillebrand. 1888 London: New York: Williams & Norgate; B. Westermann, 1888. url p. 265.
- Hawaiian Fungi / Honolulu, Hawaii: The Museum, 1925. url p. 104, p. 174, p. 45, p. 48.
- Minnesota botanical studies. Minneapolis, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. url p. 913.
- Pamphlets on forestry in Hawaii. [1900?- url p. 12.
- Reports of the Survey. Botanical series. Minneapolis [etc.]1892- url p. 913.
- The Hawaiian forester and agriculturist. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1904-1933. url p. 292.
- The indigenous trees of the Hawaiian Islands / by Joseph F. Rock. Honolulu: J.F. Rock; 1913. url p. 317, p. 365, p. 495.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2656779
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-34776
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13749646
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384206-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 34776
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 384206-1
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: SCKA2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 61609
Footnotes
- "Scaevola". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
