Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_schiedea_stellarioides
Laulihilihi
Schiedea stellarioides
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About Laulihilihi
A low densely clumped native shrub with many basal stems, four-ridged shoots and opposite narrow leaves with slightly rolled smooth margins. Diffuse, often pendent terminal flower systems have boat-shaped green sepals tinged purple, long curved deeply forked yellow-orange nectaries and purplish anthers. Small ovoid capsules contain slightly wrinkled 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
- Schiedea stellarioides
- Hawaiian names
- laulihilihi · kāwelu · māʻoliʻoli
- Other names
- Schiedea stellarioides · laulihilihi · kāwelu · māʻoliʻoli
- 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. Keep the four-ridged stems, narrow foliage and pendent flower systems. Petaloid parts are sepals; no true petals.
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; Weakly erect to sprawling subshrubs 3-6 dm tall, multi-stemmed from the base, often forming a dense clump; stems branched, green, conspicuously 4-ridged, compressed (at least the younger ones), moderately puberulent on younger stems, the hairs crinkly to curved, 0.1-0.3 mm long, and a few of them to 0.5 mm long on the angles, becoming sparsely puberulent on older stems.
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 densely clumped native shrub with many basal stems, four-ridged shoots and opposite narrow leaves with slightly rolled smooth margins. Diffuse, often pendent terminal flower systems have boat-shaped green sepals tinged purple, long curved deeply forked yellow-orange nectaries and purplish anthers. Small ovoid capsules contain slightly wrinkled 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.