WRA Species Report

Family: Verbenaceae Taxon: Clerodendrum chinense Synonym: Clerodendrum fragrans Willd. Common Name: Chinese glory bower Clerodendrum philippinum Schauer fragrant clerodendrum Cryptanthus chinensis Osbeck (basionym) fragrant glory bower Questionaire : current 20090513 Assessor: Chuck Chimera Designation: H(HPWRA) Status: Assessor Approved Data Entry Person: Chuck Chimera WRA Score 18 101 Is the species highly domesticated? y=-3, n=0 n 102 Has the species become naturalized where grown? y=1, n=-1 103 Does the species have weedy races? y=1, n=-1 201 Species suited to tropical or subtropical climate(s) - If island is primarily wet habitat, then (0-low; 1-intermediate; 2- High substitute "wet tropical" for "tropical or subtropical" high) (See Appendix 2) 202 Quality of climate match data (0-low; 1-intermediate; 2- High high) (See Appendix 2) 203 Broad climate suitability (environmental versatility) y=1, n=0 y 204 Native or naturalized in regions with tropical or subtropical climates y=1, n=0 y 205 Does the species have a history of repeated introductions outside its natural range? y=-2, ?=-1, n=0 y 301 Naturalized beyond native range y = 1*multiplier (see y Appendix 2), n= question 205 302 Garden/amenity/disturbance weed n=0, y = 1*multiplier (see y Appendix 2) 303 Agricultural/forestry/horticultural weed n=0, y = 2*multiplier (see y Appendix 2) 304 Environmental weed n=0, y = 2*multiplier (see y Appendix 2) 305 Congeneric weed n=0, y = 1*multiplier (see y Appendix 2) 401 Produces spines, thorns or burrs y=1, n=0 n 402 Allelopathic y=1, n=0 403 Parasitic y=1, n=0 n 404 Unpalatable to grazing animals y=1, n=-1 y 405 Toxic to animals y=1, n=0 406 Host for recognized pests and pathogens y=1, n=0 n 407 Causes allergies or is otherwise toxic to humans y=1, n=0 n 408 Creates a fire hazard in natural ecosystems y=1, n=0 n 409 Is a shade tolerant plant at some stage of its life cycle y=1, n=0 y 410 Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions (or limestone conditions if not a volcanic island) y=1, n=0 y Print Date: 5/6/2011 Clerodendrum chinense (Verbenaceae) Page 1 of 9 411 Climbing or smothering growth habit y=1, n=0 n 412 Forms dense thickets y=1, n=0 y 501 Aquatic y=5, n=0 n 502 Grass y=1, n=0 n 503 Nitrogen fixing woody plant y=1, n=0 n 504 Geophyte (herbaceous with underground storage organs -- bulbs, corms, or tubers) y=1, n=0 n 601 Evidence of substantial reproductive failure in native habitat y=1, n=0 n 602 Produces viable seed y=1, n=-1 603 Hybridizes naturally y=1, n=-1 n 604 Self-compatible or apomictic y=1, n=-1 605 Requires specialist pollinators y=-1, n=0 n 606 Reproduction by vegetative fragmentation y=1, n=-1 y 607 Minimum generative time (years) 1 year = 1, 2 or 3 years = 0, 1 4+ years = -1 701 Propagules likely to be dispersed unintentionally (plants growing in heavily trafficked y=1, n=-1 y areas) 702 Propagules dispersed intentionally by people y=1, n=-1 y 703 Propagules likely to disperse as a produce contaminant y=1, n=-1 n 704 Propagules adapted to wind dispersal y=1, n=-1 n 705 Propagules water dispersed y=1, n=-1 706 Propagules bird dispersed y=1, n=-1 n 707 Propagules dispersed by other animals (externally) y=1, n=-1 n 708 Propagules survive passage through the gut y=1, n=-1 801 Prolific seed production (>1000/m2) y=1, n=-1 n 802 Evidence that a persistent propagule bank is formed (>1 yr) y=1, n=-1 n 803 Well controlled by herbicides y=-1, n=1 y 804 Tolerates, or benefits from, mutilation, cultivation, or fire y=1, n=-1 y 805 Effective natural enemies present locally (e.g. introduced biocontrol agents) y=-1, n=1 n Designation: H(HPWRA) WRA Score 18 Print Date: 5/6/2011 Clerodendrum chinense (Verbenaceae) Page 2 of 9 Supporting Data: 101 2005. Staples, G.W./Herbst, D.R.. A Tropical [Is the species highly domesticated? No] "A single-flowered form grows wild in Garden Flora - Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian China, although the double-flowered form is more often cultivated." [No evidence Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop that cultivation has reduced competitive ability] Museum Press, Honolulu, HI 102 2011. WRA Specialist. Personal Communication. NA 103 2011. WRA Specialist. Personal Communication. NA 201 2005. Staples, G.W./Herbst, D.R.. A Tropical [Species suited to tropical or subtropical climate(s)? 2-high] "A species native to Garden Flora - Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian subtropical China, and now widespread in the tropical Pacific Basin, Africa, and Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop the Americas, C. chinense is also grown in greenhouses in temperate regions." Museum Press, Honolulu, HI 202 2005. Staples, G.W./Herbst, D.R.. A Tropical [Quality of climate match data? 2-high] "A species native to subtropical China, Garden Flora - Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian and now widespread in the tropical Pacific Basin, Africa, and the Americas, C. Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop chinense is also grown in greenhouses in temperate regions." Museum Press, Honolulu, HI 203 1998. Riffle, R.L.. The Tropical Look - An [Broad climate suitability (environmental versatility)? Yes] "…adaptable to zones Encyclopedia of Dramatic Landscape Plants. 9 through 11 although marginal in zone 9a." Timber Press, Portland, OR 203 2002. Iremonger, S.. A guide to plants in the Blue [Broad climate suitability (environmental versatility)? Yes] "120 to 1,280 m (400 to Mountains of Jamaica. University of the West 4,200 ft). Introduced and naturalized, native of China." [elevation range >1000 m Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica demonstrates environmental versatility] 204 2005. Staples, G.W./Herbst, D.R.. A Tropical [Native or naturalized in regions with tropical or subtropical climates? Yes] "A Garden Flora - Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian species native to subtropical China, and now widespread in the tropical Pacific Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop Basin, Africa, and the Americas, C. chinense is also grown in greenhouses in Museum Press, Honolulu, HI temperate regions." 205 1993. Waterhouse, D.F.. Biological control: [Does the species have a history of repeated introductions outside its natural Pacific prospects. Supplement 2. Australian range? Yes] "C. chinense is an important horticultural plant in many tropical and Centre for International Agricultural Research, subtropical areas of the world. It is onc of the most commonly cultivated, garden Canberra, Australia escaped, and naturalised species of Clerodendrum." 205 1998. Csurhes, S./Edwards, R.. Potential [Does the species have a history of repeated introductions outside its natural environmental weeds in Australia: Candidate range? Yes] "C chinense is native to southern Asia. It also exists in Mexico (at species for preventative control. Biodiversity Chiapas) and Nicaragua (at Matagalpa, at an altitude of some 1400m) (Rueda Group, Environment Australia, Canberra, 1993). In Queensland, cultivated specimens were recorded in Ipswich in 1976 Australia and in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens (Mt Coot-tha) in 1995 (Queensland herbarium). C philippinum var pleniflorum is currently growing in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens, Mt Coot-tha (Cameron pers. comm.). It was grown in the Flecker Botanical Gardens in Cairns in the late 1980's but is no longer present (Wilmington pers. comm.). It is not known in the Queensland nursery trade (Lawson 1996)." 205 1999. Wiersema, J.H./León, B.. World Economic [Does the species have a history of repeated introductions outside its natural Plants: A Standard Reference. CRC Press, Boca range? Yes] "Econ. Environ. (ornamental)…Dist: China; widely cult. In tropics & Raton, FL subtropics" 205 2005. Staples, G.W./Herbst, D.R.. A Tropical [Does the species have a history of repeated introductions outside its natural Garden Flora - Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian range? Yes] "A species native to subtropical China, and now widespread in the Islands and Other Tropical Places. Bishop tropical Pacific Basin, Africa, and the Americas, C. chinense is also grown in Museum Press, Honolulu, HI greenhouses in temperate regions." 301 1991. Smith, A.C.. Flora Vitiensis Nova - A New [Naturalized beyond native range? Yes] "sparingly cultivated from near sea level Flora of Fiji (Spermatophytes Only). Volume 5. to an elevation of about 900 m; it is more commonly seen naturalized in thickets, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai, HI fields, and coconut plantations and along roadsides" [Fiji] 301 1995. Liogier, H.A.. Descriptive flora of Puerto [Naturalized beyond native range? Yes] "Roadsides and wastegrounds, escaped Rico and adjacent islands: Spermatophyta, from cultivation, at lower and middle elevations, PR; southern United States, Volume IV. Melastomataceae to Bermuda, Bahamas, West Indies, Central America to Argentina and Chile…" Lentibulariaceae. La Editorial, UPR, San Juan, Puerto Rico 301 1998. Csurhes, S./Edwards, R.. Potential [Naturalized beyond native range? Yes] "C. chinense is a weed in West environmental weeds in Australia: Candidate Polynesia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Fiji and the United States (Holm et al. 1979). It is species for preventative control. Biodiversity also a weed in the Cook Islands, in Niue, Pohnpei and the Federated States of Group, Environment Australia, Canberra, Micronesia. It is spreading and becoming a weed of importance in Fiji Australia (MacFarlane, South Pacific Commission Plant Protection Service, Fiji, pers. comm.). Five other species of Clerodendrum have been recorded as weeds (Holm et al. 1979)." Print Date: 5/6/2011 Clerodendrum chinense (Verbenaceae) Page 3 of 9 301 1999. Wagner, W.L./Herbst, D.R./Sohmer, S.H.. [Naturalized beyond native range? Yes] "...in Hawaii naturalized in open, wet, Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii.

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