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Hibiscadelphus giffardianus; photograph (c) Tom and T Herman, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Tom and T Herman, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2023-01-26

Hibiscadelphus giffardianus Rock

Kilauea hau kuahiwi; Hau kuahiwi

Malvaceae

No habitat climate
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Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, photograph (c) Tara Severns, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, photograph (c) Tara Severns, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, photograph (c) Tara Severns, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, photograph (c) Tom and T Herman, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, photograph (c) Tom and T Herman, some rights reserved (CC BY)Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, photograph (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY) 18 photographs ›

Summary

Hibiscadelphus giffardianus (Kilauea hau kuahiwi) is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family Malvaceae that is endemic to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hibiscadelphus giffardianus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 68 of the 71 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

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here.
Extinct inHawaii · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 17 openly licensed records of 71 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 68 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Tara Severns, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Tom and T Herman, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Kevin Faccenda, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Hibiscadelphus 1 in the reference

Hibiscadelphus distans Hibiscadelphus distans Kauai hau kuahiwi Photo: CC BY-SA, Daderot.

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
Rock
Native to
not verified
Records
71 georeferenced · 17 open · range not tested

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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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