Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyanea_kolekoleensis
Hāhā
Cyanea kolekoleensis
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About Hāhā
An unbranched shrub with narrow elliptic leaves that are green above and whitish green below. Its long flowering stalk bends downward, and individual flower stalks curve sharply backward. Hairy, curved tubular flowers are white shading to purple on the slender lobes. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Cyanea kolekoleensis
- Hawaiian names
- hāhā
- Other names
- Cyanea kolekoleensis · hāhā
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Berries are unknown in the reviewed account; no ripe-fruit reconstruction.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Shrub; stem unbranched, 1.5-1.9 m tall, glabrous.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- An unbranched shrub with narrow elliptic leaves that are green above and whitish green below. Its long flowering stalk bends downward, and individual flower stalks curve sharply backward. Hairy, curved tubular flowers are white shading to purple on the slender lobes. This native shrub is a component of Hawaiian vegetation. Monitoring mature plants, new recruits and occupied cover can assess persistence and replacement. The reviewed accounts do not establish a measured Kauaʻi population trend or quantify an ecosystem effect.