Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_haupuensis
Naʻenaʻe
Dubautia haupuensis
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About Naʻenaʻe
A dense, rounded to flat-topped branched shrub with opposite, stalkless, narrow glossy leaves. Small marginal teeth occur toward the leaf tip, and several main veins begin near the base. Clustered discoid flower heads contain yellow florets that age purple. Small dry fruits have a bristly pappus. 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
- Dubautia haupuensis
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- Other names
- Dubautia haupuensis · naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- 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. The source describes empty fruits; do not invent filled seed anatomy or ray petals.
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; Well-branched, rounded or flat-topped shrubs, 0.5–1 m tall, forming dense clumps up to 1.5 m across. Stems ~4 cm in diameter at base, the proximal oriented 6 horizontally, branches up to 4 per node; vegetative stems gray-brown or pale brown, longitudinally striate in age, glabrous, leaf scars glabrous; flowering stems generally densely hirsute, the most proximal with hairs confined to opposing longitudinal lines.
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 dense, rounded to flat-topped branched shrub with opposite, stalkless, narrow glossy leaves. Small marginal teeth occur toward the leaf tip, and several main veins begin near the base. Clustered discoid flower heads contain yellow florets that age purple. Small dry fruits have a bristly pappus. 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.