Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyanea_salicina
Cyanea salicina
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About Cyanea salicina
The historical Cyanea larrisonii account, mapped to this regional name, describes a fleshy, apparently unbranched shrub leafy at its apex. Narrow linear-lanceolate leaves are light green above and whitish beneath, with smooth margins or minute teeth in the upper third. Short racemes carry four to six nearly black, slender, slightly curved tubular flowers, with dark bluish-black corollas and purplish-black calyces. 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
- Cyanea salicina
- Other names
- Cyanea salicina · Cyanea larrisonii · Cyanea rockii · Delissea larrisonii · Delissea rockii
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. This reconstruction follows Rock's historical C. larrisonii description, retained under the frozen regional C. salicina identity. Broader modern C. recta-complex limits remain uncertain. Immature berries alone were described; do not invent ripe fruit or seeds. Do not expose the fine type locality in public fields.
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; shrub
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
- The historical Cyanea larrisonii account, mapped to this regional name, describes a fleshy, apparently unbranched shrub leafy at its apex. Narrow linear-lanceolate leaves are light green above and whitish beneath, with smooth margins or minute teeth in the upper third. Short racemes carry four to six nearly black, slender, slightly curved tubular flowers, with dark bluish-black corollas and purplish-black calyces. 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.