Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_imbricata
Naʻenaʻe
Dubautia imbricata
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About Naʻenaʻe
A dense clumping shrub with opposite narrow, hairless leaves bearing five to nine main veins and small marginal teeth. Its clustered yellow discoid flower heads have overlapping bract tips. The small dry fruits bear a pappus of short fringed scales. 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
- Dubautia imbricata
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- Other names
- Dubautia imbricata · naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- 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. Discoid heads have no large daisy-like ray petals.
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 up to ca. 2.5 m tall, forming dense clumps up to 2 m across; stems glabrous, even at leaf scars.
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 dense clumping shrub with opposite narrow, hairless leaves bearing five to nine main veins and small marginal teeth. Its clustered yellow discoid flower heads have overlapping bract tips. The small dry fruits bear a pappus of short fringed scales. 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.