Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_geniostoma_helleri
Kāmakahala
Geniostoma helleri
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About Kāmakahala
An upright or sometimes climbing shrub with smooth elliptic-to-oblanceolate leaves and persistent small stipular cups. Stalked compound flower clusters carry white-to-pale-greenish-yellow urn-shaped flowers with narrow mouths. Whitish-green, short-beaked capsules have two or occasionally three valves and lack keels. 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
- Geniostoma helleri
- Hawaiian names
- kāmakahala
- Other names
- Geniostoma helleri · kāmakahala
- 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. Keep the urn-shaped narrow flower mouths and unkeeled capsules; do not copy Geniostoma degeneri's keeled fruit.
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; Shrubs 2-4.5 m tall, sometimes climbing; stems terete, ± divaricately branched, glabrous.
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 upright or sometimes climbing shrub with smooth elliptic-to-oblanceolate leaves and persistent small stipular cups. Stalked compound flower clusters carry white-to-pale-greenish-yellow urn-shaped flowers with narrow mouths. Whitish-green, short-beaked capsules have two or occasionally three valves and lack keels. 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.