Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_scaevola_glabra
ʻOhe Naupaka
Scaevola glabra
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About ʻOhe Naupaka
A native shrub with mature stems largely leafless below the tips. Leathery pointed oblanceolate-to-obovate leaves crowd the shoot ends and have axillary hair tufts. Bright-yellow waxy flowers curve outward; their tubes split along the upper side and their lobes have winged margins. Smooth dark-purplish-black ovoid fruits follow. 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 glabra
- Hawaiian names
- ʻohe naupaka · naupaka
- Other names
- Scaevola glabra · ʻohe naupaka · naupaka
- 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. Retain the leafless lower stems and bright-yellow waxy curved corollas; do not replace them with generic white coastal naupaka 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; Shrubs 1.5-4 m tall; all but distal portion of stems naked or leafless.
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 native shrub with mature stems largely leafless below the tips. Leathery pointed oblanceolate-to-obovate leaves crowd the shoot ends and have axillary hair tufts. Bright-yellow waxy flowers curve outward; their tubes split along the upper side and their lobes have winged margins. Smooth dark-purplish-black ovoid fruits follow. 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.