Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_urena_lobata
Aramina
Urena lobata
Open this record in the interactive Atlas
About Aramina
An erect-to-spreading subshrub with often purplish-red young branches and stellate hairs. Ovate leaves vary from unlobed to shallowly angled or lobed. Pink flowers have a conspicuous slightly curved pink staminal column and purple anthers and stigmas. Dry fruits divide into five hooked-bristly segments; seeds are reddish brown. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
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
- Urena lobata
- Common names
- aramina
- Other names
- Urena lobata · aramina
- 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. The source has an inconsistent leaf-length unit; omit that measurement. Show one shallowly lobed foliage form rather than all variants on one plant.
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 or diffuse subshrub, 0.5‒4 m tall; branches often tinged purple-red, closely stellate and sometimes also simple pubescent.
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 erect-to-spreading subshrub with often purplish-red young branches and stellate hairs. Ovate leaves vary from unlobed to shallowly angled or lobed. Pink flowers have a conspicuous slightly curved pink staminal column and purple anthers and stigmas. Dry fruits divide into five hooked-bristly segments; seeds are reddish brown. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.