Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_myrsine_cirrhosa
Myrsine cirrhosa
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About Myrsine cirrhosa
A moderately branched shrub with slender smooth branches and narrow leaves clustered near shoot tips. Entire leaf margins strongly wave toward the tip, which ends in a long curved hook. The lower surface has long dark secretory streaks. Small axillary flower clusters develop into smooth, rounded purple-black drupes. 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
- Myrsine cirrhosa
- Other names
- Myrsine cirrhosa
- 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. Preserve hooked leaf tips, distal waves and long dark secretory lines; do not substitute the black-dot foliage of Myrsine helleri. Flower color is not specified.
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; Moderately branched shrubs 0.7–2 m tall; branches slender, glabrous, erect-spreading, bark brown or with orange to reddish-brown tinge.
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 moderately branched shrub with slender smooth branches and narrow leaves clustered near shoot tips. Entire leaf margins strongly wave toward the tip, which ends in a long curved hook. The lower surface has long dark secretory streaks. Small axillary flower clusters develop into smooth, rounded purple-black drupes. 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.