Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_geniostoma_degeneri
Kāmakahala
Geniostoma degeneri
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About Kāmakahala
A shrub with broad elliptic leaves and large cup-like stipules that split quickly. Dense stalkless flower clusters carry orange-yellow tubular corollas with narrow spreading lobes. Large white, slightly fleshy, compressed capsules are keeled and split into two valves, exposing small pale-brown 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
- Geniostoma degeneri
- Hawaiian names
- kāmakahala
- Other names
- Geniostoma degeneri · kāmakahala
- 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.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Shrubs 1.5-3.5 m tall; stems terete to weakly angled, hispidulous or glabrate.
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
- A shrub with broad elliptic leaves and large cup-like stipules that split quickly. Dense stalkless flower clusters carry orange-yellow tubular corollas with narrow spreading lobes. Large white, slightly fleshy, compressed capsules are keeled and split into two valves, exposing small pale-brown 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.