Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_centranthoides
Kadua centranthoides
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About Kadua centranthoides
An erect to sprawling subshrub with firm, often heart-based pointed leaves and strongly raised lower veins. Narrow, interrupted branching flower systems carry fleshy purple-to-violet tubular flowers with greenish throats and reflexed lobes. Small, deeply grooved paired-looking capsules contain flattened pale-brown winged 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 centranthoides
- Other names
- Kadua centranthoides
- 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; Erect to sprawling subshrubs; stems terete, 3-20 dm long, glabrous or sometimes short-hirtellous in the inflorescence, often glaucous.
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 erect to sprawling subshrub with firm, often heart-based pointed leaves and strongly raised lower veins. Narrow, interrupted branching flower systems carry fleshy purple-to-violet tubular flowers with greenish throats and reflexed lobes. Small, deeply grooved paired-looking capsules contain flattened pale-brown winged 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.