Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cathetus_distichus
Pāmakani Māhū
Cathetus distichus
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About Pāmakani Māhū
An endemic shrub usually 0.3–1 metre tall, with taller stems often climbing. Its leafy main stems bear variable lance-shaped to elliptic leaves in two ranks on very short stalks. Small male and female flowers occur at leaf axils. The depressed, rounded green-to-brown capsules open explosively and contain small angled seeds. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Cathetus distichus
- Hawaiian names
- pāmakani māhū · pāmakani
- Other names
- Cathetus distichus · pāmakani māhū · pāmakani · Phyllanthus distichus · Phyllanthus sandwicensis · Diasperus distichus
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Vegetative plate: reproductive structures are described in the profile but not depicted. Capsule shape must be depressed-globose, never angular or ribbed.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Erect or scandent shrub
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An endemic shrub usually 0.3–1 metre tall, with taller stems often climbing. Its leafy main stems bear variable lance-shaped to elliptic leaves in two ranks on very short stalks. Small male and female flowers occur at leaf axils. The depressed, rounded green-to-brown capsules open explosively and contain small angled seeds. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.