Clermontia drepanomorpha Rock

Genus: Clermontia sect. Clermontia with petaloid sepals.

Range: Hawai'i; Kohala, boggy forest.

Growth form: Shrub, 2-7 m tall.

This species is suspected by Carlquist (1969a) to be the parent along with Clermontia kohalae of Clermontia x leptoclada.

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Sources:

• Rock, 1913;
• Rock, 1919;
• Wimmer, 1943;
• Degener, 1958;
• Wagner et al., 1990.