Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_geniostoma_pumilum
Kāmakahala
Geniostoma pumilum
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About Kāmakahala
A few-branched shrub with angled or winged young stems, elliptic-to-obovate leaves pale bluish beneath and deciduous stipular cups. Orange tubular flowers have short hairs outside. Small ovoid, three-angled capsules split into three valves and are keeled toward the tip. 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 pumilum
- Hawaiian names
- kāmakahala
- Other names
- Geniostoma pumilum · 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. Do not invent a ripe capsule color; retain the three-valved fruit structure.
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; Sparingly branched shrub; young stems sharply angled or slightly winged, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs.
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 few-branched shrub with angled or winged young stems, elliptic-to-obovate leaves pale bluish beneath and deciduous stipular cups. Orange tubular flowers have short hairs outside. Small ovoid, three-angled capsules split into three valves and are keeled toward the tip. 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.