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Cyrtandra cyaneoides
Cyrtandra cyaneoides is a rare species of flowering plant in the African violet family known by the common name māpele. It is endemic to Kauaʻi in Hawaiʻi, where it is known from eleven populations containing a total of under 800 individual plants. Several of these were discovered between 2003 and 2008. It is a shrub that grows 1 to 6 meters tall, bears white flowers, and egg-shaped berries. It was federally listed as an endangered species in 1996.
The plant grows in wet forest habitat, sometimes on cliffs or next to streams. It grows alongside other native plants such as ʻākōlea (Boehmeria grandis), hōʻiʻo (Diplazium sandwichianum), ʻieʻie (Freycinetia arborea), ʻapeʻape (Gunnera kauaiensis), and several other Cyrtandra species. The understory also contains many ferns and bryophytes such as mosses and liverworts. Many of the trees host epiphytes.
Cyrtandra albiflora · Cyrtandra argentii · Bailey's Cyrtandra · Cyrtandra biflora · Cyrtandra calyptribracteata · Cyrtandra cleopatrae · Kahana Valley cyrtandra · Cyrtandra cumingii · Cyrtandra decurrens · Mountain cyrtandra · Cyrtandra elegans · Forest cyrtandra
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyrtandra cyaneoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
