Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_sida_rhombifolia
Cuba Jute
Sida rhombifolia
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About Cuba Jute
An erect subshrub with short-stalked rhombic-to-elliptic leaves, toothed in the upper part and smooth toward the wedge-shaped base. Solitary axillary yellow flowers grow on slender stalks with ribbed calyces. Small wheel-like fruits usually have eight to ten segments; their apical beaks range from absent to short. Seeds are brown. 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
- Sida rhombifolia
- Common names
- Cuba jute
- Other names
- Sida rhombifolia · Cuba jute
- 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. Do not impose uniformly long fruit awns; the account describes variable beaks. Preserve the smooth lower leaf margins.
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 subshrub, 0.5‒1.5 m tall; glabrate to cinereously stellulate pubescent, sometimes also with simple hairs.
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
- An erect subshrub with short-stalked rhombic-to-elliptic leaves, toothed in the upper part and smooth toward the wedge-shaped base. Solitary axillary yellow flowers grow on slender stalks with ribbed calyces. Small wheel-like fruits usually have eight to ten segments; their apical beaks range from absent to short. Seeds are brown. 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.