Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyrtandra_confertiflora
Haʻiwale
Cyrtandra confertiflora
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About Haʻiwale
A short shrub with few branches and closely spaced opposite pairs of large elliptic to ovate leaves near the shoot tips. The leaves have coarse teeth and often winged stalks. Dense leaf-axil clusters carry white, narrowly funnel-shaped, curved flowers. Ellipsoid ripe berries are white. 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
- Cyrtandra confertiflora
- Hawaiian names
- haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- Other names
- Cyrtandra confertiflora · haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- 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; Shrubs 0.8-1.5(-2) m tall; stems unbranched or few-branched near base.
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 short shrub with few branches and closely spaced opposite pairs of large elliptic to ovate leaves near the shoot tips. The leaves have coarse teeth and often winged stalks. Dense leaf-axil clusters carry white, narrowly funnel-shaped, curved flowers. Ellipsoid ripe berries are white. 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.