Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_abutilon_incanum
Hoary Abutilon
Abutilon incanum
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About Hoary Abutilon
Hoary Abutilon (Abutilon incanum) is recorded as an established shrub on Kauaʻi. A low, branched shrub or subshrub, usually about half a metre to one metre tall, with small gray-haired toothed leaves. Hawaiian flowers have five pale pink petals with dark red bases. The small dry fruits become pale brown and divide into five compartments. Documented component of native vegetation; wild-population survival, recruitment and occupied vegetation cover provide measurable conservation endpoints.
Kauaʻi evidence
Established island occurrence follows the Bishop Museum checklist. Diagnostic morphology follows Smithsonian Hawaiian Flora; accepted identity follows Kew WCVP. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Abutilon incanum
- Common names
- hoary abutilon
- Other names
- Abutilon incanum · hoary abutilon · Abutilon incanum subsp. pringlei · Abutilon mochisense · Abutilon pringlei · Abutilon pringlei var. sinaloense · Sida incana
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Indigenous
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Current extent and island effect sizes are unassessed. Public occurrence remains island-level only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Local pollinators, flowering schedules, seedling establishment and recruitment rates are not independently assessed.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Repeated counts of wild recruits and mature plants; Native vegetation cover in comparison plots. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island population extent and trend · Quantified local environmental effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Hoary Abutilon (Abutilon incanum) is recorded as an established shrub on Kauaʻi. A low, branched shrub or subshrub, usually about half a metre to one metre tall, with small gray-haired toothed leaves. Hawaiian flowers have five pale pink petals with dark red bases. The small dry fruits become pale brown and divide into five compartments. Documented component of native vegetation; wild-population survival, recruitment and occupied vegetation cover provide measurable conservation endpoints.