Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_areca_triandra
Wild Areca Palm
Areca triandra
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About Wild Areca Palm
Wild Areca Palm (Areca triandra) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through cultivation records. A shade-tolerant wet-tropical palm that expands by basal suckers into compact clusters. Its cultivated Kauaʻi presence does not establish naturalization or persistence outside collection care.
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.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Areca triandra
- Common names
- Triandra palm · Wild Areca Palm
- Other names
- Areca triandra · Wild Areca Palm · Triandra palm · Areca laxa · Areca humilis
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- 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
- Monoecious; male and female flowers share a branched inflorescence below the crownshaft. Ellipsoid fruits ripen from green to scarlet red.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Palm tree · Compact clustering palm
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
- Wild Areca Palm (Areca triandra) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through cultivation records. A shade-tolerant wet-tropical palm that expands by basal suckers into compact clusters. Its cultivated Kauaʻi presence does not establish naturalization or persistence outside collection care.
Sources and further reading
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:664230-1
- https://www.greening.gov.hk/en/community-outreach/qrcode-tree-labels/index_id_107.html
- https://projectpalm.net/species/areca-triandra
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:664230-1/images
- https://ntbg.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2018_NTBG_Living_Collections_Catalog.pdf
- https://ntbg.org/database/herbarium/detail/PTBG1000012718