Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_sabdariffa_furcellata
ʻAkiohala
Sabdariffa furcellata
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About ʻAkiohala
A hairy shrub with bristles and stellate hairs. Heart-based serrate leaves vary from narrow to ovate or shallowly three-to-five-lobed. Large pink-lavender flowers have dark-purple basal spots and an epicalyx of ten to twelve narrow bracts with forked tips. Straw-colored hairy capsules contain shiny brown kidney-shaped 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
- Sabdariffa furcellata
- Hawaiian names
- ʻakiohala · ʻakiahala · hau hele · hau hele wai
- Other names
- Sabdariffa furcellata · ʻakiohala · ʻakiahala · hau hele · hau hele wai
- 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. Choose one coherent leaf form, retaining the fork-tipped epicalyx. Do not depict the edible red fleshy calyx of roselle as this species.
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 to 2.5 m tall; stems densely stellate-pubescent and with bristly, pustulate hairs, or with simple or 2-forked hairs.
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 hairy shrub with bristles and stellate hairs. Heart-based serrate leaves vary from narrow to ovate or shallowly three-to-five-lobed. Large pink-lavender flowers have dark-purple basal spots and an epicalyx of ten to twelve narrow bracts with forked tips. Straw-colored hairy capsules contain shiny brown kidney-shaped 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.