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Abutilon menziesii Seem.

Ko'oloa'ula

Malvaceae · Hawaii

No habitat climate
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Summary

Abutilon menziesii, known as Koʻoloaʻula in Hawaiian, is a critically endangered species of flowering shrub in the family Malvaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Abutilon menziesii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Abutilon

Abutilon is a large genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. General common names include Indian mallow and velvetleaf; ornamental varieties may be known as room maple, parlor maple, or flowering maple. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Abutilon", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 59 of the 60 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeHawaii · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker20.768, -156.886 · in the densest population, 53 records (88% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 60 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 16 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 67 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 59 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 60 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Abutilon 29 in the reference

Abutilon abutiloides Abutilon abutiloides Bushy abutilon Photo: CC BY, Bruce HartmanAbutilon angulatum Abutilon angulatum Malvaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAbutilon auritum Abutilon auritum Asian Indian mallow Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney Abutilon densiflorum Malvaceae Abutilon eremitopetalum Abutilon eremitopetalum Hiddenpetal Indian mallow Photo: CC BY, Forest & Kim StarrAbutilon fruticosum Abutilon fruticosum Texas Indian mallow Photo: CC BY, Jackie TAbutilon grandiflorum Abutilon grandiflorum Hairy Indian Mallow Photo: CC0, author not statedAbutilon grandifolium Abutilon grandifolium Hairy Indian mallow Photo: CC BY, Pablo H CapovillaAbutilon hirtum Abutilon hirtum Florida Keys Indian mallow Photo: CC BY, J. L. Gómez-HechavarríaAbutilon hulseanum Abutilon hulseanum Mauve Photo: CC BY, J. L. Gómez-HechavarríaAbutilon hypoleucum Abutilon hypoleucum Rio Grande Abutilon Photo: CC0, author not statedAbutilon incanum Abutilon incanum Indian mallow Photo: CC BY, Matt Berger all 30 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
Seem.
Native to
Hawaii
Wild records
60 in range · 16 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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