Description:

Lysimachia venosa is a shrub that grows 50–100 cm tall, possibly taller. The stems have brown, striate bark, with young stems being sparsely puberulent and soon becoming glabrate. The leaves are simple and alternate, well-spaced along the stem. The blades are oblanceolate, 60–110 mm long, and 16–30 mm wide. The leaf apex is acuminate, and the base is sessile, gradually tapering. The blades are coriaceous with minutely revolute margins. Lateral and tertiary veins are evident but not especially conspicuous. Petioles are 1–6 mm long. Stipules are absent. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils and bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic (radially symmetric), and 6–7-merous. The pedicels are 15–30 mm long, glabrous or with a few minute hairs, and bracteate, but bracteoles are absent. The calyx comprises five sepals with narrowly lanceolate lobes 12–16 mm long and sparsely puberulent at the base. The corolla, with an unknown color, is 18–19 mm long, and the lobes are obovate and imbricate. There are as many stamens as there are corolla lobes; the filaments are connate for about one-third of their length and adnate to the corolla tube. The anthers are dithecal. The ovary is superior and 1-celled with free-central ovule placentation and a single style. The fruit and seed characteristics are TBD. It is found on steep cliffs at an elevation of approximately 1,560 meters.

Lysimachia venosa

Family: Primulaceae

Hawaiian Name: N/A

 Minimum Length: 1.24 (mm)

 Maximum Length: 2.05 (mm)

 Minimum Width: 1.15 (mm)

 Maximum Width: 1.29 (mm)

 Minimum Mass: 0.27 (mg)

 Maximum Mass: 0.54 (mg)

 Texture: Reticulate

Geographic Distribution:

 Kauai

PEPP Status:

Not Applicable

Native Status:

Endemic

2D Seed Shapes

Bean-shaped (Reniform): Resembling the shape of a kidney or bean.

Square or Oblong: Angular shape with all sides more or less equal or longer than wide.

Triangular: Three-sided shape, broadest below the middle.

Elliptic: Rounded at both ends. shaped like an ellipse or oval.

Ovate or Obovate: egg-shaped, broader at one end.

Linear: Extremely long and narrow, with sides usually parallel.

Round: Appears circular, with length and width roughly the same.

Cardioid (Heart-Shaped): One edge has a prominent double curve into two lobes.

3D Seed Shapes

Cylindrical: A cylinder with parallel sides and a circular cross-section.

Discoid: Resembling a disc or plate with two relatively flat surfaces.

Fusiform: Spindle-shaped, tapering at both ends.

Globose: Spherical.

Lenticular: Resembling a lens with two convex surfaces.

Ovoid: Egg-shaped.

Plano-convex: Having a flat ventral (planar) surface and a curved dorsal (convex) surface.

Polygonal: Having more than three flat faces meeting at angles.

Sectoroid: Resembling a segment of an orange with two relatively flat faces and one curved face.

Subglobose/ellipsoid: Inflated shape but less than spherical.

Trigonous: Having three faces that meet at a distinct angle; triangular in cross-section.

Federal Status

Endangered species (E) are species that are so rare they’re in danger of becoming extinct.

Threatened species (T) are species that are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of their range.

Species of Concern (SOC) are species about which there are some concerns regarding status and threats, but insufficient information is available to list the species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Plant Extinction Prevention (PEP) is a state status for rare plants that focuses its efforts on species that have fewer than 50 remaining wild individuals.

Storage Behavior

Orthodox seeds (desiccation-tolerant): can be dried to an internal seed moisture of less than 12% water and stored at freezing temperatures.

Intermediate seeds (temperature-sensitive) tend to age faster than orthodox seeds and may have only a 5-year lifespan when stored at -20°C. They are recommended for storage at 5°C.

Recalcitrant seeds (desiccation-sensitive): cannot be stored in a conventional freezer as they cannot survive after drying and/or freezing at -20°C. They are recommended for cryopreservation storage.