Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lysimachia_kalalauensis
Lysimachia kalalauensis
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About Lysimachia kalalauensis
A few-branched sprawling or climbing shrub with reddish-brown bark and rusty hairs on young shoots. Alternate elliptic leaves have smooth margins and pointed tips. Solitary bell flowers have seven or eight green corolla lobes, purplish-red bases and purple veins. Rounded-to-ovoid capsules contain irregular wing-margined 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
- Lysimachia kalalauensis
- Other names
- Lysimachia kalalauensis
- 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; Sprawling or scandent shrubs, bark reddish brown, striate; stems 20-30 dm long, few-branched, young ones rusty tomentose, soon 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 few-branched sprawling or climbing shrub with reddish-brown bark and rusty hairs on young shoots. Alternate elliptic leaves have smooth margins and pointed tips. Solitary bell flowers have seven or eight green corolla lobes, purplish-red bases and purple veins. Rounded-to-ovoid capsules contain irregular wing-margined 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.