Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lysimachia_daphnoides
Lehua Makanoe
Lysimachia daphnoides
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About Lehua Makanoe
A low clumping shrub with reddish-brown bark and sticky rusty hairs on young stems and leaf margins. Narrow leathery leaves closely overlap and taper to pointed tips. Solitary dark-purple-to-burgundy bell flowers have six or seven lobes. Rounded capsules contain irregular dark-brown 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
- Lysimachia daphnoides
- Hawaiian names
- lehua makanoe · kolokolo kuahiwi · kolekole lehua · kolokolo lehua
- Other names
- Lysimachia daphnoides · lehua makanoe · kolokolo kuahiwi · kolekole lehua · kolokolo lehua
- 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; Small shrubs forming clumps 2-5 dm tall, bark reddish brown to dark brown; stems several, ascending to erect, young ones densely viscid-hirtellous, eventually 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 low clumping shrub with reddish-brown bark and sticky rusty hairs on young stems and leaf margins. Narrow leathery leaves closely overlap and taper to pointed tips. Solitary dark-purple-to-burgundy bell flowers have six or seven lobes. Rounded capsules contain irregular dark-brown 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.