Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_senna_gaudichaudii
Kolomona
Senna gaudichaudii
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About Kolomona
A native shrub with pinnate leaves usually bearing four or five pairs of rounded, notched leaflets. Club-shaped nectaries occur between the first and often second leaflet pairs. Pale-chartreuse flowers have ten nearly similar fertile stamens. Flat hanging pods contain compressed dark-reddish-brown seeds in one transverse row. 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
- Senna gaudichaudii
- Hawaiian names
- kolomona · heuhiuhi · kalamona · uhiuhi
- Other names
- Senna gaudichaudii · kolomona · heuhiuhi · kalamona · uhiuhi
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Indigenous
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Use one pale-chartreuse flower form, preserving all ten fertile stamens and leaflet-pair glands. Do not substitute bright-yellow Senna occidentalis flowers or its basal petiole gland.
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 0.5-3(-4) m tall, young parts sparsely to densely yellowish pubescent (hairs spreading) or rarely glabrous.
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 native shrub with pinnate leaves usually bearing four or five pairs of rounded, notched leaflets. Club-shaped nectaries occur between the first and often second leaflet pairs. Pale-chartreuse flowers have ten nearly similar fertile stamens. Flat hanging pods contain compressed dark-reddish-brown seeds in one transverse row. 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.