Mamane
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| Mamane | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Sophora |
| Species: | S. chrysophylla |
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| Sophora chrysophylla (Salisb.) Seem. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Edwardsia chrysophylla Salisb.[1] |
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Māmane (Hawaiian language) is a shrub of Hawai'i in the Sophora genus. It is suitable for gardens.
It is highly polymorphic, growing as a shrub or tree, and able to reach a height of 15 m (49 ft) in tree form. It is grow fast in every island of Hawaiian archipelago, so botanists describe many local forms including S.unifoliolata[2] Hawaiian honeycreeper visits mamane sucking nectar [3],[4] If mamane were to disappear from Hawai'i it would take with it the palila bird, which is also endangered due to the lack of enough māmane trees.[5] Loxoides bauilleui, palila, feeds on unripe seeds of the māmane[6]
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- ↑ "Sophora chrysophylla (Salisb.) Seem.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1997-05-24. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?34951. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- ↑ Hawaiian Native Plant Genera
- ↑ Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Aspects of Sophora Sect. Edwardsia (Papilionaceae) Pacific Science 54:159-167
- ↑ Palila factsheet
- ↑ Scott, J.M., S. Mountainspring, C. van Riper III, C.B. Kepler, J.D. Jacobi, T.A. Burr, and J.G. Griffin. 1984. Annual variation in the distribution, abundance, and habitat response of the palila (Loxioides bailleui). Auk 101:647-664
- ↑ Long-Term Population Variability in the Palila, An Endangered Hawaiian Honeycreeper Pacific Science (1996), 50: 363-370
