Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyrtandra_cyaneoides
Māpele
Cyrtandra cyaneoides
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About Māpele
A fleshy unbranched shrub with very large, thick obovate to nearly round leaves. Deeply impressed veins and coarse, irregular marginal teeth give the upper surface a wrinkled appearance. Shaggy brown-haired leaf-axil clusters bear curved white funnel flowers. Young ovoid berries are apparently shaggy. 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 cyaneoides
- Hawaiian names
- māpele · haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- Other names
- Cyrtandra cyaneoides · māpele · 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. Ripe fruit color and seeds are not documented in the reviewed account; only vegetative, floral or supported young-fruit structures may be depicted.
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; Fleshy shrubs ca. 1-1.3 m tall; stems unbranched.
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 fleshy unbranched shrub with very large, thick obovate to nearly round leaves. Deeply impressed veins and coarse, irregular marginal teeth give the upper surface a wrinkled appearance. Shaggy brown-haired leaf-axil clusters bear curved white funnel flowers. Young ovoid berries are apparently shaggy. 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.