Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_chrysophyllum_oliviforme
Satinleaf
Chrysophyllum oliviforme
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About Satinleaf
Satinleaf (Chrysophyllum oliviforme) is an introduced tree treated as naturalized on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Current extent is unassessed. A tropical American satinleaf of hammocks, woodlands, and secondary forest; bird-dispersed fleshy fruit helps it spread beyond cultivation. Bishop Museum documents the taxon as naturalized on Kauaʻi; public geography remains island-level.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Chrysophyllum oliviforme
- Common names
- Satinleaf
- Other names
- Chrysophyllum oliviforme · Satinleaf · Cynodendron oliviforme · Dactimala oliviformis · Guersentia oliviformis
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-05
- Evidence limits
- Current extent is unassessed; public locality is island level only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- confirmed tree form shrub overlap
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Satinleaf (Chrysophyllum oliviforme) is an introduced tree treated as naturalized on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Current extent is unassessed. A tropical American satinleaf of hammocks, woodlands, and secondary forest; bird-dispersed fleshy fruit helps it spread beyond cultivation. Bishop Museum documents the taxon as naturalized on Kauaʻi; public geography remains island-level.
Sources and further reading
- https://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr75.pdf
- https://editedimages.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Imadaetal.2025Hawaiianvascularplants.xlsx
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:786504-1
- https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250092178
- https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ST166
- https://worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000856774
- https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043