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Wikstroemia oahuensis

Index Wikstroemia oahuensis

Wikstroemia oahuensis, the Ākia or Oahu false ohelo, is a species of flowering shrub in the mezereon family, Thymelaeaceae, that is endemic to Hawaiokinai. [1]

36 relations: Amos Arthur Heller, Asa Gray, Asthma, Bacteria, Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner, Bishop Museum, Chemotherapy, Daphne mezereum, Endemism, Fish, Flavobacterium akiainvivens, Flower, Flowering plant, Fruit, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Horticulture, Joseph Halda, Joseph Rock, Kauai, Lanai, Laxative, Lei (garland), Maui, Molokai, Monoicous, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Native Hawaiians, Oahu, Pandanus tectorius, PDF, Shrub, Thymelaeaceae, United States Forest Service, Wikstroemia, Wikstroemia oahuensis.

Amos Arthur Heller

Amos Arthur Heller (March 21, 1867–May 19, 1944) was an American botanist.

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Asa Gray

Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

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Asthma

Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner

Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner (1873-1959) was a Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist.

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Bishop Museum

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.

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Daphne mezereum

Daphne mezereum, commonly known as February daphne, mezereon, mezereum, spurge laurel or spurge olive, is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and Western Asia, north to northern Scandinavia and Russia.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Flavobacterium akiainvivens

Flavobacterium akiainvivens, or koohonua ili akia, (literally "ākia bark bacteria") is a species of gram-negative bacteria in the Flavobacteriaceae family.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiokinai in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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Joseph Halda

Joseph Jakob Halda (born 7 December 1943) is a Czech botanist who worked at the Institute of Botany of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

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Joseph Rock

Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.

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Kauai

Kauai, anglicized as Kauai, is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands.

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Lanai

Lānai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain.

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Laxative

Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements.

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Lei (garland)

Lei is a garland or wreath.

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Maui

The island of Maui (Hawaiian) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th-largest island in the United States.

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Molokai

Molokai (Hawaiian), nicknamed “The Friendly Isle”, is the fifth largest island of eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Island Chain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Monoicous

Monoicous plants are those species that bear both sperm and eggs on the same gametophyte.

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National Tropical Botanical Garden

The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is a Hawaii-based not-for-profit institution dedicated to tropical plant research, conservation, and education.

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Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians (Hawaiian: kānaka ʻōiwi, kānaka maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the aboriginal Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants.

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Oahu

O‘ahu (often anglicized Oahu) known as "The Gathering Place" is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Pandanus tectorius

Pandanus tectorius is a species of Pandanus (screwpine) that is native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Thymelaeaceae

The Thymelaeaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera (listed below) and 898 species.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass.

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Wikstroemia

Wikstroemia is a genus of 55-70 species of flowering shrubs and small trees in the mezereon family, Thymelaeaceae.

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Wikstroemia oahuensis

Wikstroemia oahuensis, the Ākia or Oahu false ohelo, is a species of flowering shrub in the mezereon family, Thymelaeaceae, that is endemic to Hawaiokinai.

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Redirects here:

Oahu False Ohelo, Oahu false ohelo, Wikstroemia palustris.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikstroemia_oahuensis

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