Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyrtandra_longifolia
Haʻiwale
Cyrtandra longifolia
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About Haʻiwale
A usually many-branched shrub with closely spaced opposite pairs of thick, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate leaves. Leaf margins are smooth or bear widely spaced small teeth. White curved funnel flowers grow in small leaf-axil cymes; the pale-green calyx falls after flowering. Ellipsoid ripe berries are white. 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
- Cyrtandra longifolia
- Hawaiian names
- haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- Other names
- Cyrtandra longifolia · haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- 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. Possible unisexual flowers are qualified in the source; do not invent a definite sex form.
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; Shrubs 1-4 m tall; stems usually many-branched.
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
- A usually many-branched shrub with closely spaced opposite pairs of thick, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate leaves. Leaf margins are smooth or bear widely spaced small teeth. White curved funnel flowers grow in small leaf-axil cymes; the pale-green calyx falls after flowering. Ellipsoid ripe berries are white. 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.