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(L.f.) Bhandari, Annonaceae |
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Present on Pacific Islands? yes
Threat only at high elevations? no
Risk assessment results: Low risk, score: 0 (Go to the risk assessment)
Other Latin names: Artabotrys odoratissimus R. Br. ex Ker Gawl., Artabotrys uncinatus (Lam.) Merr.
Common name(s): [more details]
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English: climbing ilang-ilang, climbing ylang-ylang, ylang-ylang |
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French: coq du levant, coque du levant |
Habit: shrub
Description: "A powerful climber, the old stems of great thickness, covered with rather smooth grey bark and furnished with thick woody pointed spreading spines 2-4 cm long. Leafy branches slightly puberulous. Leaf-blade 6-15 cm long, 2-4.5 cm wide, narrowly elliptical, usually 3 to 4 times as long as wide, acute or almost so at base, short-acuminate at apex, not glossy; lateral veins 8-16 pairs. Pedicel sparsely pubescent. Sepals about 5 mm long, pubescent on outside. Outer petals up to 1 cm wide. Carpels glabrous. Fruitlets 3-4 cm long when ripe, ovoid, conspicuously apiculate, quite glabrous. Seeds 15-20 mm long, pale brown, smooth" (Dassanayake, 1983; p. 51).
"Climbing shrub, to 12 ft. long; leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, to 6 in. long; flowers not showy but very fragrant, 1-2 together on low peduncles, sepals reflexed, yellow, petals about 1 in. long; fruit narrowly obovoid, yellow, 1 1/2 in. long, sessile, in dense clusters 20 in long" (Bailey & Bailey, 1976; p. 111).
Habitat/ecology: Moist forests (Bailey & Bailey, 1976; p. 111). In Sri Lanka, "formerly rather commmon in dry country forests but rarely collected during the past decades" (Dassanayake, 1983; p. 51).
Propagation: Seed
Native range: Sri Lanka, southern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Taiwan (GRIN). "A native of southern Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon; reported from Java and South Cina but not indigenous there" (Dassanayake, 1983; p. 51).
Presence:
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
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French Polynesia
Society Islands |
Tahiti Island |
introduced
cultivated |
Florence, J. (2004) (p. 82) |
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State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands |
Hawaii (Big) Island |
introduced
invasive |
Nagata, Kenneth M. (1995) (p. 11)
Voucher cited: Natata 3891 (BISH) In kukui forest. |
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State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands |
Maui Island |
introduced
invasive |
Starr, Forest/Starr, Kim/Loope, Lloyd L. (2003) (p. 24)
East Maui. Voucher cited: Starr & Martz 001122-1 (BISH) |
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State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands |
Oahu Island |
introduced
invasive |
Nagata, Kenneth M. (1995) (p. 11)
Voucher cited: Nagata 3787 (BISH, HLA) In disturbed forest. |
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia Archipelago |
Île Grande Terre |
introduced
cultivated |
MacKee, H. S. (1994) (p. 15)
Vouchers cited: H. Brinon 1, Veillon 4544, Suprin in MacKee 45442 |
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Country/Terr./St. & Island group |
Location |
Cited status &
Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction? |
Reference &
Comments |
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China
China |
China (People's Republic of) |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007) |
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Taiwan
Taiwan |
Taiwan Island |
native
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U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007) |
Additional information: Hawaii's Most Invasive Horticultural Plants
Additional online information about Artabotrys hexapetalus is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).
Taxonomic information about Artabotrys hexapetalus may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
References:
Bailey, L. H./Bailey, E. Z. 1976. Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada. Macmillan, New York. 1290 pp.
Dassanayake, M. D., gen. ed. 1983. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Vol V. Amerind Pub. Co., New Delhi. 476 pp.
Florence, J. 2004. Flore de la Polynésie française, Vol. 2. Paris. IRE Editions, Publications Scientifiques, Collection Faune et Flore Tropicales 41. 503 pp.
MacKee, H. S. 1994. Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 164 p.
Nagata, Kenneth M. 1995. New Hawaiian plant records IV. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Miller, Scott, E., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 42:10-13.
Starr, Forest/Starr, Kim/Loope, Lloyd L. 2003. New plant records from the Hawaiian Archipelago. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Eldredge, Lucius G., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001-2002. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 74:23-34.
U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2007. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.
Wagner, Warren L./Herbst, Derral R./Sohmer, S. H. 1999. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Revised edition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum special publication. University of Hawaii Press/Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1919 pp. (two volumes).