Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_fluviatilis
Kamapuaʻa
Kadua fluviatilis
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About Kamapuaʻa
A climbing shrub with smooth, partly flattened stems and widely spaced pointed leaves bearing conspicuous net veins beneath. Sparse leaf-axil flowers have long stalks, large pointed calyx lobes and white waxy tubular corollas. Woody, strongly four-angled or winged top-shaped capsules contain translucent reddish-brown angular 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 fluviatilis
- Hawaiian names
- kamapuaʻa · pilo
- Other names
- Kadua fluviatilis · kamapuaʻa · 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; Scandent shrubs, foetid when bruised; stems terete, but slightly flattened, 3-25 dm long, glabrous, lateral branches short.
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 climbing shrub with smooth, partly flattened stems and widely spaced pointed leaves bearing conspicuous net veins beneath. Sparse leaf-axil flowers have long stalks, large pointed calyx lobes and white waxy tubular corollas. Woody, strongly four-angled or winged top-shaped capsules contain translucent reddish-brown angular 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.