Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_acuminata
Au
Kadua acuminata
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About Au
An arching or climbing shrub with mostly widely spaced, firm, long-pointed leaves and triangular stipules with slender tips. Reduced leaf-axil clusters bear yellow-green tubular flowers whose lobes reflex and roll back at opening. Woody, broadly top-shaped capsules are strongly four-angled or winged and contain sharply angled translucent reddish 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
- Kadua acuminata
- Hawaiian names
- au · pilo
- Other names
- Kadua acuminata · au · pilo
- 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 or subshrubs, foetid when bruised; stems scandent or arcuate, terete to quadrangular, sometimes slightly winged, 20-40 dm long, lateral branches short, 1-10 dm long, glabrous.
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 arching or climbing shrub with mostly widely spaced, firm, long-pointed leaves and triangular stipules with slender tips. Reduced leaf-axil clusters bear yellow-green tubular flowers whose lobes reflex and roll back at opening. Woody, broadly top-shaped capsules are strongly four-angled or winged and contain sharply angled translucent reddish 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.