Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_tryblium
Kadua tryblium
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About Kadua tryblium
A few-branched arching climber that can root where stems contact the ground. Long leathery leaves are green above and irregularly purple-marked beneath. Large stipules fuse around the petioles into water-collecting cups that tear as shoots grow. Dense axillary clusters carry yellow-green funnel flowers with purple-tinged tubes. Its rounded drupe-like fruit remains closed at maturity. 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
- Kadua tryblium
- Other names
- Kadua tryblium
- 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. Flowers have different style and anther forms. Use one coherent fruiting form; do not substitute the splitting dry capsule of most other Kadua species.
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; Glabrous, scandent shrubs; stems sometimes rooting where in contact with ground, up to 5 m long, few-branched, arcuate.
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 few-branched arching climber that can root where stems contact the ground. Long leathery leaves are green above and irregularly purple-marked beneath. Large stipules fuse around the petioles into water-collecting cups that tear as shoots grow. Dense axillary clusters carry yellow-green funnel flowers with purple-tinged tubes. Its rounded drupe-like fruit remains closed at maturity. 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.