Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_pentas_lanceolata
Pentas
Pentas lanceolata
Open this record in the interactive Atlas
About Pentas
A hairy, mostly woody subshrub with pointed ovate-to-lanceolate leaves, deeply evident veins and bristle-bearing stipules. Combined terminal and axillary clusters carry long tubular flowers opening into five-pointed star-shaped limbs. A representative deep-red flower form is shown. Small fruits are inversely triangular and beaked. 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
- Pentas lanceolata
- Common names
- pentas · Egyptian star cluster
- Other names
- Pentas lanceolata · pentas · Egyptian star cluster
- 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. Flowers have several style-and-anther forms; use one coherent floral form. Red color is supported by NParks, rather than inferred from the color-unspecified Kew flora description.
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; subshrub or shrub
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 hairy, mostly woody subshrub with pointed ovate-to-lanceolate leaves, deeply evident veins and bristle-bearing stipules. Combined terminal and axillary clusters carry long tubular flowers opening into five-pointed star-shaped limbs. A representative deep-red flower form is shown. Small fruits are inversely triangular and beaked. 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.