Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_schiedea_waiahuluensis
Schiedea waiahuluensis
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About Schiedea waiahuluensis
A much-branched native shrub whose initially smooth green stems become sticky and glandular-hairy with age. Opposite thin narrow oblanceolate leaves have smooth slightly thickened margins. Terminal flower systems carry green-to-whitish sepals and yellow anthers. Small nearly spherical capsules contain black compressed kidney-shaped seeds. 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
- Schiedea waiahuluensis
- Other names
- Schiedea waiahuluensis
- 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. Show the sticky hairs of a mature plant. Flowers are strongly protandrous: anthers release pollen before stigmas become receptive. Do not add true petals or show every flower at an identical mixed sexual stage.
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 to spreading shrub to 40 cm long; stems terete, green, glabrous in young plants, but becoming conspicuously viscid, glandular pubescent throughout as plants age, ascending, sprawling, becoming pendent as they elongate in the wild, much branched, with side branches elongating to length of main axis and flowering at the same time as main axis.
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 much-branched native shrub whose initially smooth green stems become sticky and glandular-hairy with age. Opposite thin narrow oblanceolate leaves have smooth slightly thickened margins. Terminal flower systems carry green-to-whitish sepals and yellow anthers. Small nearly spherical capsules contain black compressed kidney-shaped seeds. 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.