Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_clidemia_hirta
Koster's curse
Clidemia hirta
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Kauaʻi evidence
Species identity and image source are documented. Additional ecological and conservation citations are recommended.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Clidemia hirta
- Common names
- Koster's curse
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Order
- Myrtales
- Record type
- Species or taxonomic group
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Documented introduced presence on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Conservation priority; formal rank not listed
- Evidence date
- 2026-09-13
- Evidence limits
- No major occurrence uncertainty noted
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Wet forest understory · Disturbed moist sites
- Food and resource needs
- Light, water, nutrients, and suitable soil or substrate
- Reproduction
- Viable propagules and suitable establishment conditions
- Shelter
- Suitable soil, substrate, and vegetation structure
- Growth form
- Shrub
Threats and conservation
- Threats
- Invasive pressure on forest understory
- Conservation actions
- Weed control, dispersal reduction, monitoring
- Monitoring
- Weed control, dispersal reduction, monitoring
- Data gaps
- Additional ecological and conservation citations are recommended
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not assessed
- Seasonal description
- none is a shrub in the Kauaʻi vascular and land plants group. Its origin status is introduced.
