Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lepidium_owaihiense
ʻĀnaunau
Lepidium owaihiense
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About ʻĀnaunau
An ascending to weakly erect subshrub with thick, slightly fleshy spoon-like to oblanceolate leaves. Coarse teeth occur mainly in the upper two-thirds of the leaf margins. Terminal flower racemes develop elliptic-to-rounded flattened fruits with notched tips. Seeds are compressed, narrowly obovoid and pale reddish brown. 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
- Lepidium owaihiense
- Hawaiian names
- ʻānaunau · ʻānounou · kūnānā · naunau
- Other names
- Lepidium owaihiense · ʻānaunau · ʻānounou · kūnānā · naunau · Lepidium bidentatum var. owaihiense · Nasturtium owahiense
- 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 frozen regional taxon maps narrowly to Lepidium bidentatum var. owaihiense. Do not treat the entire broad L. bidentatum species as an equivalent alias or import all of its variation.
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; Subshrubs 1.5-6 dm tall; stems ascending to weakly erect, herbaceous for most of their length, 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
- An ascending to weakly erect subshrub with thick, slightly fleshy spoon-like to oblanceolate leaves. Coarse teeth occur mainly in the upper two-thirds of the leaf margins. Terminal flower racemes develop elliptic-to-rounded flattened fruits with notched tips. Seeds are compressed, narrowly obovoid and pale reddish brown. 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.