Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_pipturus_kauaiensis
Māmaki
Pipturus kauaiensis
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About Māmaki
A brown-barked shrub with pointed ovate-to-lanceolate leaves bearing coarse teeth. Blades are dark green above and white-woolly below. Small axillary flower clusters give rise to tiny pale-brown or gray achenes constricted below the upper portion. 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
- Pipturus kauaiensis
- Hawaiian names
- māmaki · māmake
- Other names
- Pipturus kauaiensis · māmaki · māmake
- 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 substitute the bright-red veins and red glands of Pipturus ruber. Preserve the account's gynodioecious sexual variation without combining every floral state on one plant.
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 1.5-3 m tall; branches slender, with brown bark, puberulent with fine, appressed, white hairs, glabrate with age.
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 brown-barked shrub with pointed ovate-to-lanceolate leaves bearing coarse teeth. Blades are dark green above and white-woolly below. Small axillary flower clusters give rise to tiny pale-brown or gray achenes constricted below the upper portion. 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.