Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyanea_spathulata
Hāhā
Cyanea spathulata
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About Hāhā
A branched shrub with narrow oblanceolate to elliptic leaves, often with rolled, finely scalloped margins. Leaf stalks may be winged. Condensed clusters bear slender white to greenish-white flowers, sometimes faintly purple, with nearly upright tubes. Rounded ripe berries are purple. 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
- Cyanea spathulata
- Hawaiian names
- hāhā
- Other names
- Cyanea spathulata · hāhā
- 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.
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; Branched shrubs 2-3 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 branched shrub with narrow oblanceolate to elliptic leaves, often with rolled, finely scalloped margins. Leaf stalks may be winged. Condensed clusters bear slender white to greenish-white flowers, sometimes faintly purple, with nearly upright tubes. Rounded ripe berries are purple. 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.