Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_asystasia_intrusa
Chinese Violet
Asystasia intrusa
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About Chinese Violet
A branching perennial herb or subshrub with erect, ascending or scrambling shoots and smooth-edged ovate leaves. Lax racemes carry small white, two-lipped tubular flowers with a large violet-to-purple patch on the lower central lobe. Erect narrow capsules have a sterile lower portion and flattened, tuberculate seeds. 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
- Asystasia intrusa
- Common names
- Chinese violet
- Other names
- Asystasia intrusa · Chinese violet
- 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. Leaves have entire margins. Inset intentionally depicts flowers and capsules only. Do not substitute large-flowered Asystasia gangetica subsp. gangetica.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Perennial herb or subshrub from a woody rootstock
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 branching perennial herb or subshrub with erect, ascending or scrambling shoots and smooth-edged ovate leaves. Lax racemes carry small white, two-lipped tubular flowers with a large violet-to-purple patch on the lower central lobe. Erect narrow capsules have a sterile lower portion and flattened, tuberculate seeds. 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.