Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_osteomeles_anthyllidifolia
ʻŪlei
Osteomeles anthyllidifolia
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About ʻŪlei
A much-branched native shrub, usually prostrate, with gray young shoots and drooping branches. Pinnate leaves carry numerous small leathery, smooth-edged leaflets, glossy above and hairy beneath. Clusters of white clawed flowers develop into rounded white fruits whose flesh may be white or purple. Seeds are yellowish. 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
- Osteomeles anthyllidifolia
- Hawaiian names
- ʻūlei · uʻulei
- Other names
- Osteomeles anthyllidifolia · ʻūlei · uʻulei
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Indigenous
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. The reviewed Hawaiian flora describes white external fruit; do not invent dark-purple ripe skins from unrelated or unidentified photographs.
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; Shrubs; stems usually prostrate, occasionally erect and forming large shrubs up to 3 m tall (apparently in response to browsing), many-branched, young branches grayish, drooping.
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 much-branched native shrub, usually prostrate, with gray young shoots and drooping branches. Pinnate leaves carry numerous small leathery, smooth-edged leaflets, glossy above and hairy beneath. Clusters of white clawed flowers develop into rounded white fruits whose flesh may be white or purple. Seeds are yellowish. 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.