Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_paleata
Naʻenaʻe Pua Kea
Dubautia paleata
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About Naʻenaʻe Pua Kea
A hairy shrub with opposite or three-whorled narrow leaves and several main veins. Leaf margins may be rolled and bear small remote teeth. Branched arrays carry discoid heads of white florets, often with purple, hairy or glandular bracts. Hairy, often curved dry fruits bear a short scaly 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 paleata
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe pua kea
- Other names
- Dubautia paleata · naʻenaʻe pua kea
- 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.
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 0.3-2.5 m tall; stems markedly spreading pilose or hirsute to appressed hispid or grayish silky to glabrate.
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 hairy shrub with opposite or three-whorled narrow leaves and several main veins. Leaf margins may be rolled and bear small remote teeth. Branched arrays carry discoid heads of white florets, often with purple, hairy or glandular bracts. Hairy, often curved dry fruits bear a short scaly 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.