Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_scaevola_mollis
Naupaka Kuahiwi
Scaevola mollis
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About Naupaka Kuahiwi
A native shrub with narrow lanceolate-to-oblanceolate, minutely toothed leaves, softly gray-hairy beneath. A representative purple-flowered form has hairy tubes and winged lobe margins. Oblong purplish-black fruits are densely hairy. 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 mollis
- Hawaiian names
- naupaka kuahiwi
- Other names
- Scaevola mollis · 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. Show one purple-flowered form and preserve hairy fruits, unlike the smooth fruits of Scaevola glabra and S. gaudichaudii.
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; Large shrubs 1-2.5 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 native shrub with narrow lanceolate-to-oblanceolate, minutely toothed leaves, softly gray-hairy beneath. A representative purple-flowered form has hairy tubes and winged lobe margins. Oblong purplish-black fruits are densely hairy. 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.