[3] This plant was discovered in 1992, shortly after Hurricane Iniki tore a specimen off the tall cliffs above Kauai's Wailua River and dropped bits of it where it could be collected.

[4] The Hawaiian word `iniki means "sharp and piercing, as wind or pangs of love.

Funnel-shaped flowers grow in the leaf axils borne on pedicels up to 2.5 centimeters in length.

[4] By 2010 there were 40 plants remaining in the single location where it is known to grow, by the "Blue Hole" at the headwaters of the north fork of the Wailua River.

[3] It is threatened by its small population size, which may cause loss of reproductive vigor and genetic variability and makes the species vulnerable to extinction in any one severe event, such as a hurricane.