Endemic to Maui and the Big Island, considered Rare. Suspect these were planted in Kipuka Puaulu as known wild populations are further north on Big Island in windward Kohala and Hamakua. Note lateral veins nearly at right angles to midrib.
Also known as G. grandiflorus which is treated as a synonym here. The plant was clamoring over Sotol and Mimosa aculeaticarpa in a wild, natural area of the Jardin Botanico
Note thick pubescent new foliage. Plants scattered on a broad grassy roadside right-of-way in coarse gravelly calcareous/caliche soils of low rolling limestone ridges along eastern foothills of Sacramento Mountains.