Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_pterolepis_glomerata
False Meadow Beauty
Pterolepis glomerata
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About False Meadow Beauty
A small erect subshrub with hairy four-angled young stems and small opposite pointed leaves with three main longitudinal veins. Terminal flower clusters have conspicuously branched or stellate hairs on the floral cups. Large anthers are pink and smaller anthers yellow. Small fruits retain the floral cups. 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
- Pterolepis glomerata
- Common names
- false meadow beauty
- Other names
- Pterolepis glomerata · false meadow beauty
- 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 account does not state petal color. Do not infer a pink corolla merely from anther color; seed color is also unspecified.
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; Erect, suffrutescent herbs or subshrubs up to 0.5 m tall; young branches subquadrate, strigose.
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 small erect subshrub with hairy four-angled young stems and small opposite pointed leaves with three main longitudinal veins. Terminal flower clusters have conspicuously branched or stellate hairs on the floral cups. Large anthers are pink and smaller anthers yellow. Small fruits retain the floral cups. 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.