Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_scaevola_gaudichaudii
Naupaka Kuahiwi
Scaevola gaudichaudii
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About Naupaka Kuahiwi
A low native shrub with hairless oblanceolate leaves bearing a few teeth in their upper half. A representative brownish-yellow flower form has slender tubes and spreading lanceolate lobes without winged margins. Small smooth ovoid fruits ripen purplish black. 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
- Scaevola gaudichaudii
- Hawaiian names
- naupaka kuahiwi
- Other names
- Scaevola gaudichaudii · naupaka kuahiwi
- 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. Use one brownish-yellow floral form; do not mix the rare pink form. Do not add the winged lobe margins of other upland naupaka.
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 0.5-1(-1.5) m tall.
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 native shrub with hairless oblanceolate leaves bearing a few teeth in their upper half. A representative brownish-yellow flower form has slender tubes and spreading lanceolate lobes without winged margins. Small smooth ovoid fruits ripen purplish black. 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.