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Kadua nukuhivensis (J.Florence & Lorence) W.L.Wagner & Lorence

Specimen

MNHN-P-P01092083
OCE (Oceania)

Taxonomy

Rubiaceae
Kadua
Kadua nukuhivensis
Kadua nukuhivensis (J.Florence & Lorence) W.L.Wagner & Lorence

Origin

Marquesas Islands, Huku Hiva: Ooumu area ; top of Tapueahu Valley off new Hwy
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J.-Y. Meyer, J.-P. Luce
1997-6-23
3500
6 m long, diffusely branched shrub growing up through Freycinetia arborea ; leaves coriaceous ; stems gray-brown ; corolla white with pink tinge on unopened lobes ; rare in upper gulches ; leaves in silica gel; flowers in 70 % ethanom
Diverse pterydophyte understory

Determination history

Florence 12-2005
Kadua nukuhivensis (J.Florence & Lorence) W.L.Wagner & Lorence
Florence 03-2000 PARATYPE
Hedyotis nukuhivensis J.Florence & Lorence
Adansonia, sér. 3, 22: 224 (2000)