Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_malvastrum_coromandelianum
False Mallow
Malvastrum coromandelianum
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About False Mallow
A tough, often low shrub with hairy reddish stems and ovate-to-narrow leaves bearing impressed veins and serrate margins. Small orange flowers grow singly or in small groups in leaf axils and near shoot tips. Dry wheel-like fruits have eight to twelve one-seeded segments. The University of Hawaiʻi weed account describes replacement of overgrazed forage species in Hawaiian wet-to-mesic lowland pasture and uncultivated land. This is a regional qualitative observation, not a quantified Kauaʻi effect. Monitoring occupied cover and recruitment can evaluate local persistence.
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
- Malvastrum coromandelianum
- Common names
- false mallow
- Hawaiian names
- haʻuoipake
- Other names
- Malvastrum coromandelianum · false mallow · haʻuoipake · Malva coromandeliana · Malveopsis coromandeliana · Malvastrum tricuspidatum
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence 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
- Shrub or subshrub; Described as a tough shrub in the Hawaiian weed account; joined PDF subspecies marker corrected.
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 tough, often low shrub with hairy reddish stems and ovate-to-narrow leaves bearing impressed veins and serrate margins. Small orange flowers grow singly or in small groups in leaf axils and near shoot tips. Dry wheel-like fruits have eight to twelve one-seeded segments. The University of Hawaiʻi weed account describes replacement of overgrazed forage species in Hawaiian wet-to-mesic lowland pasture and uncultivated land. This is a regional qualitative observation, not a quantified Kauaʻi effect. Monitoring occupied cover and recruitment can evaluate local persistence.