Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_isodendrion_laurifolium
Aupaka
Isodendrion laurifolium
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About Aupaka
A few-branched upright shrub leafy toward the shoot tips. Leathery oblong-to-elliptic leaves have conspicuous raised net veins and wavy, remotely toothed margins. Small purple flowers have pale greenish-white outer petal margins. Green, deeply three-lobed narrow capsules retain a style tip and contain pale-yellow 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
- Isodendrion laurifolium
- Hawaiian names
- aupaka
- Other names
- Isodendrion laurifolium · aupaka
- 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; Few-branched, virgate shrubs 10-20(-30) dm tall; branches ascending, leafy for 10-30 cm below apex, 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 few-branched upright shrub leafy toward the shoot tips. Leathery oblong-to-elliptic leaves have conspicuous raised net veins and wavy, remotely toothed margins. Small purple flowers have pale greenish-white outer petal margins. Green, deeply three-lobed narrow capsules retain a style tip and contain pale-yellow 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.