''Pisonia wagneriana'', the ''pāpala kēpau'' or Kauai catchbirdtree, is a species of
flowering tree in the ''
Bougainvillea'' family,
Nyctaginaceae, that is
endemic to
Kauai
Kauai, () anglicized as Kauai ( ), is geologically the second-oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands (after Niʻihau). With an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km2), it is the fourth-largest of these islands and the 21st largest island ...
in the
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...
. It is threatened by
habitat loss.
References
Endemic flora of Hawaii
Trees of Hawaii
wagneriana
''Wagneriana'' is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904.
Species
it contains twenty-nine species:
*''Wagneriana acrosomoides'' (Cândido Firmino de Mell ...
Endangered plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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