[Kalstroemia cistoides (L.) Endl.] (ind) Nohu, nohunohu Prostrate to ascending perennial herbs; stems up to several m long. Leaves (1.5—)3—10 cm long, leaflets 5-10(11) pairs, oblong to elliptic, 7-28 mm long, 2.5-12 mm wide, both surfaces moderately to densely sericeous to long-strigose, apex apiculate or rounded, stipules subulate to falcate, 3-9 mm long, 1-4 mm wide. Peduncles densely antrorsely strigose and hirsute, the latter hair type with pustulate bases; sepals lanceolate, slightly unequal, 7-14 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, margins scarious; petals lemon yellow to bright yellow, deltate-obovate, 11-26 mm long, 6-15 mm wide; outer nec-taries green, bilobed, intrastaminal ones connate into an annular ring around ovary base; ovary long-strigose. Fruit 8-15 mm in diameter, mericarps dorsally crested and tuberculate, bearing 2 stout hard spines 5- 10 mm long, sometimes also with 2 smaller spines near base, rarely spine 1 or absent, the crests short-hirsute, the hairs with pustulate bases. [2n = 12, 36*.] Native to the Old World, now a pantropical weed, often occurring in maritime habitats; in Hawai‘i occurring in coastal habitats, 0-50(-100) m, on all of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands except Gardner Pinnacles and Necker, also on all of the main islands.— Plate 197.
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