Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_gouania_meyenii
Gouania meyenii
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About Gouania meyenii
An upright to spreading shrub with yellow-brown hairs on new growth and broad ovate leaves with smooth margins. It lacks tendrils. Tiny white flowers have small petals that enclose individual stamens. Fruits carry two or three wings, notched at the top and base, and contain shiny brown ellipsoid seeds. 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
- Gouania meyenii
- Other names
- Gouania meyenii
- 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. Do not add climbing tendrils. Possible monoecy in the account should remain qualified.
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; Erect to spreading shrubs, young growth yellowish brown pilose, soon glabrate; stems 0.5-2.2 m long.
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
- An upright to spreading shrub with yellow-brown hairs on new growth and broad ovate leaves with smooth margins. It lacks tendrils. Tiny white flowers have small petals that enclose individual stamens. Fruits carry two or three wings, notched at the top and base, and contain shiny brown ellipsoid seeds. 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.