Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_phyllostegia_renovans
Phyllostegia renovans
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About Phyllostegia renovans
A young erect subshrub that later climbs, with hairy shoots and large, coarsely toothed ovate leaves whose veins are often red-tinged. Open unbranched racemes carry white two-lipped flowers. The green, hairy bell calyx has widely spreading lobes with coarse marginal teeth. Large nutlets are greenish black. 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
- Phyllostegia renovans
- Other names
- Phyllostegia renovans
- 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 open unbranched raceme and distinctly toothed spreading calyx lobes; do not substitute Phyllostegia electra's branched raceme.
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; Erect subshrub when young, becoming scandent and the stems up to 3-4 m long, short-hirsute.
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 young erect subshrub that later climbs, with hairy shoots and large, coarsely toothed ovate leaves whose veins are often red-tinged. Open unbranched racemes carry white two-lipped flowers. The green, hairy bell calyx has widely spreading lobes with coarse marginal teeth. Large nutlets are greenish black. 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.