Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_adenanthera_pavonina
Red sandalwood
Adenanthera pavonina
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About Red sandalwood
Red sandalwood (Adenanthera pavonina) is an introduced tree treated as naturalized on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Current extent is unassessed. Native from tropical Asia through Malesia to northern Australia; associated with wet tropical forest margins, secondary forest, and disturbed lowland or coastal sites.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 40 plants under Adenanthera pavonina across 1 entries dated 1927. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Adenanthera pavonina
- Common names
- Red sandalwood · red-bead tree · coralwood · false wiliwili · wiwili
- Other names
- Adenanthera pavonina · red sandalwood · red-bead tree · coralwood · false wiliwili · wiwili · Entada arborea · Adenanthera gersenii
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-05
- Evidence limits
- Current extent is unassessed; public locality is island level only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Woody tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Red sandalwood (Adenanthera pavonina) is an introduced tree treated as naturalized on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Current extent is unassessed. Native from tropical Asia through Malesia to northern Australia; associated with wet tropical forest margins, secondary forest, and disturbed lowland or coastal sites.