Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_schiedea_spergulina
Schiedea spergulina
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About Schiedea spergulina
A weakly erect to sprawling native shrub with many basal branches and thread-like linear leaves, mostly recurved and shallowly V-shaped. Contracted terminal flower systems have small yellow-green sepals with pale membranous margins. Male plants carry functional stamens; female plants produce narrow ovoid capsules with wrinkled kidney-shaped 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
- Schiedea spergulina
- Other names
- Schiedea spergulina
- 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. This species is dioecious. A fruiting female reconstruction must not combine fully functional male stamens on the same plant. Preserve extremely narrow leaves and omit true petals.
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; Dioecious, weakly erect to sprawling shrubs; stems 3-6 dm long, few-stemmed from the base, forming tangled clumps, the primary stems branched, weakly ascending to sprawling, internodes 0.8-2.5 cm long, green, glabrous proximally, glabrous to puberulent on the distal stems and inflorescence.
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 weakly erect to sprawling native shrub with many basal branches and thread-like linear leaves, mostly recurved and shallowly V-shaped. Contracted terminal flower systems have small yellow-green sepals with pale membranous margins. Male plants carry functional stamens; female plants produce narrow ovoid capsules with wrinkled kidney-shaped 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.