Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyrtandra_paliku
Haʻiwale
Cyrtandra paliku
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About Haʻiwale
A low subshrub with two to five thick upright stems densely covered in long reddish-brown hairs. Opposite leaf pairs are unequal, strongly asymmetric and often curved, with fine marginal teeth. Branched cymes carry white flowers and persistent pale-green calyces. Immature ellipsoid fruit is documented. 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 paliku
- Hawaiian names
- haʻiwale · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- Other names
- Cyrtandra paliku · 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. Mature berries and seeds were not seen; use flowers or immature fruit 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; Subshrub, 30-75 cm, 2-5-branched from base, each major stem erect, unbranched or vigorous plants with 2 or 3 additional branchlets each up to ca. 25 cm long, conspicuously shaggy villous with dark reddish brown trichomes 3-5 mm long; stems erect, thick, 6-8 mm diameter, prominently ringed with leaf scars, densely shaggy long-villous.
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 subshrub with two to five thick upright stems densely covered in long reddish-brown hairs. Opposite leaf pairs are unequal, strongly asymmetric and often curved, with fine marginal teeth. Branched cymes carry white flowers and persistent pale-green calyces. Immature ellipsoid fruit is documented. 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.