Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_pauciflorula
Naʻenaʻe
Dubautia pauciflorula
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About Naʻenaʻe
A spreading erect to partly climbing shrub with a loose crown and opposite, narrow hairless leaves bearing few small teeth near the tip. Large pyramidal flower systems contain many very small heads, each with only two to four yellow florets. Small hairy dry fruits carry numerous slender pappus bristles. 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 pauciflorula
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- Other names
- Dubautia pauciflorula · 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.
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; Subscandent to erect shrubs up to ca. 3 m tall, forming a diffuse, spreading crown up to 3 m or more across; stems 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
- A spreading erect to partly climbing shrub with a loose crown and opposite, narrow hairless leaves bearing few small teeth near the tip. Large pyramidal flower systems contain many very small heads, each with only two to four yellow florets. Small hairy dry fruits carry numerous slender pappus bristles. 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.