Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyrtandra_pickeringii
Haʻiwale
Cyrtandra pickeringii
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About Haʻiwale
A small branched shrub with unequal opposite leaves, long-tapered bases, serrate margins and velvety yellow-brown hairs below. Open leaf-axil cymes are shaggy reddish brown. Flowers have a broad saucer-shaped calyx and a short, curved white tube. Immature ellipsoid berries are described as 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 pickeringii
- Hawaiian names
- haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- Other names
- Cyrtandra pickeringii · 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. Corolla lobes are unknown. Fruit description is based on immature berries; do not invent mature seed or floral-lobe details.
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; Small shrubs probably only 1-2 m tall; stems apparently 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 small branched shrub with unequal opposite leaves, long-tapered bases, serrate margins and velvety yellow-brown hairs below. Open leaf-axil cymes are shaggy reddish brown. Flowers have a broad saucer-shaped calyx and a short, curved white tube. Immature ellipsoid berries are described as 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.