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Citharexylum spinosum
(Verbenaceae)

fiddlewood

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Featured items

Citharexylum spinosum pest alert flyer View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Clear image of fiddlewood fruit helps to identify this tree.


Species description or overview

Citharexylum spinosum information from PIER
Information on Citharexylum spinosum as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Citharexylum spinosum on Maui (Hawaii, USA): species information View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
This report on the species Citharexylum spinosum in Hawaii--with particular emphasis on its status on the island of Maui--includes information about the taxonomy, description, biology and ecology, distribution, control methods, and management recommendations, as well as references.


Taxonomy & nomenclature

ITIS nomenclature info for Citharexylum spinosum
Nomenclatural information about Citharexylum spinosum is provided by ITIS.


Pest alerts

Citharexylum spinosum pest alert flyer View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Clear image of fiddlewood fruit helps to identify this tree.


Impacts

Citharexylum spinosum (Verbenaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Citharexylum spinosum as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).


Images

Citharexylum caudatum pest alert flyer View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
What is fiddlewood and why is it bad? This flyer alerts Maui residents to the invasiveness of fiddlewood.

Images of Citharexylum spinosum (Verbenaceae) (fiddlewood)
Links to high-resolution free images of Citharexylum spinosum (Verbenaceae) (fiddlewood) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.

Citharexylum spinosum information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands  new posting 
Information about Citharexylum spinosum in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Citharexylum spinosum images from PIER
Images of Citharexylum spinosum provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).


Distribution

Citharexylum spinosum information from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands  new posting 
Information about Citharexylum spinosum in Hawaii is available from the Smithsonian Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

Plants of Hawaii: Citharexylum spinosum -- MAPS
USDA/ITIS (http://www.itis.usda.gov/)

Citharexylum spinosum on Maui (Hawaii, USA): species information View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
This report on the species Citharexylum spinosum in Hawaii--with particular emphasis on its status on the island of Maui--includes information about the taxonomy, description, biology and ecology, distribution, control methods, and management recommendations, as well as references.

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy (2000) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.

New plant records for the Hawaiian Archipelago (2001) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
New island records, new state records, and range extensions of plants located on Midway Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii, State of Hawaii are in this report.


Books

Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives)
Veitch, C.R. and M.N. Clout (eds.) . 2002. Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. vii + 414pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0682-3.


Full-text articles

Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Sherley, Greg (ed.) . 2000. Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. Apia, Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. ISBN: 982-04-0214-X.

Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives)
Veitch, C.R. and M.N. Clout (eds.) . 2002. Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. vii + 414pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0682-3.

Feeding damage of the introduced leafhopper Sophonia rufofascia (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) to plants in forests and watersheds of the Hawaiian Islands
Jones, Vincent P., Puananai Anderson-Wong, Peter A. Follet, Pingjun Yang, Daphne M. Wescot, John S. Hu, and Diane M. Ullman. 2000. Feeding damage of the introduced leafhopper Sophonia rufofascia (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) to plants in forests and watersheds of the Hawaiian Islands. Environmental Entomology 29(2) (April 2000). pp. 171-180.

New plant records from the Hawaiian archipelago
Starr, Forest, Kim Martz, and Lloyd L. Loope. 2002. New plant records from the Hawaiian archipelago. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Eldredge, Lucius G., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2000. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 69:16-27.

Citharexylum spinosum on Maui (Hawaii, USA): species information View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
This report on the species Citharexylum spinosum in Hawaii--with particular emphasis on its status on the island of Maui--includes information about the taxonomy, description, biology and ecology, distribution, control methods, and management recommendations, as well as references.


Bibliography

References for Citharexylum spinosum
Bibliographic references for Citharexylum spinosum are provided by HEAR.


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