Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_rumex_albescens
Huʻahuʻakō
Rumex albescens
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About Huʻahuʻakō
A decumbent native subshrub with thin narrow delta-shaped to lanceolate, heart-based leaves. Margins are wavy, crisped and finely eroded-toothed. Branched panicles bear numerous tiny green-to-yellow-green flowers. Fruiting valves are yellow-green, heart-shaped and without tubercles; the enclosed nuts are pale 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
- Rumex albescens
- Hawaiian names
- huʻahuʻakō
- Other names
- Rumex albescens · huʻahuʻakō
- 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 add the conspicuous valve tubercles of other docks. Preserve small inconspicuous flowers.
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; stems decumbent, 0.3-20 dm long, glabrous to moderately pilose.
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 decumbent native subshrub with thin narrow delta-shaped to lanceolate, heart-based leaves. Margins are wavy, crisped and finely eroded-toothed. Branched panicles bear numerous tiny green-to-yellow-green flowers. Fruiting valves are yellow-green, heart-shaped and without tubercles; the enclosed nuts are pale 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.