Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_malvaviscus_penduliflorus
Turk's Cap
Malvaviscus penduliflorus
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About Turk's Cap
A shrub with pointed lanceolate-to-ovate, toothed leaves and hairs along young stems and flower stalks. Hanging solitary or clustered flowers have a tubular calyx, several narrow spoon-shaped involucral bracts and long red or occasionally white corollas. The staminal column and styles project slightly. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
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
- Malvaviscus penduliflorus
- Common names
- Turk's cap · firecracker hibiscus
- Other names
- Malvaviscus penduliflorus · Turk's cap · firecracker hibiscus
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. The reviewed regional account says fruit is apparently unknown. Choose one red-flowered form and omit fruit and seeds.
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 up to 3(-4) m tall, glabrate or sparsely pubescent, but pedicels densely pubescent and petioles and stems with lines of simple and bifurcate 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 shrub with pointed lanceolate-to-ovate, toothed leaves and hairs along young stems and flower stalks. Hanging solitary or clustered flowers have a tubular calyx, several narrow spoon-shaped involucral bracts and long red or occasionally white corollas. The staminal column and styles project slightly. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.