Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cyrtandra_paludosa
Haʻiwale
Cyrtandra paludosa
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About Haʻiwale
An unbranched to sparsely branched shrub with thick, narrow leaves, usually opposite but occasionally in whorls. Leaf margins are coarsely scalloped or toothed. Leaf-axil cymes carry curved white funnel flowers with a pale-green, beaked calyx that usually falls after flowering. Ripe ellipsoid 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 paludosa
- Hawaiian names
- haʻiwale · moa · hahala · kanawao keʻokeʻo
- Other names
- Cyrtandra paludosa · haʻiwale · moa · hahala · 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 1-5 m tall; stems unbranched to few-branched.
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
- An unbranched to sparsely branched shrub with thick, narrow leaves, usually opposite but occasionally in whorls. Leaf margins are coarsely scalloped or toothed. Leaf-axil cymes carry curved white funnel flowers with a pale-green, beaked calyx that usually falls after flowering. Ripe ellipsoid 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.