Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_raillardioides
Naʻenaʻe ʻUla
Dubautia raillardioides
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About Naʻenaʻe ʻUla
A loose, partly reclining shrub with soft woody lower stems, fleshy upper stems and a fringe of hairs along the upper edge of leaf scars. Narrow leaves occur in threes. Broad branched arrays carry white discoid florets and often purple, glandular bracts. The dry fruits have a narrow scaly pappus. 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 raillardioides
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe ʻula
- Other names
- Dubautia raillardioides · naʻenaʻe ʻula
- 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; Somewhat lax, partly decumbent shrubs up to 3 m tall; stems herbaceous and usually somewhat thick and fleshy above, soft woody below, glabrous except for a conspicuous fringe of trichomes on the upper border of the confluent 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 loose, partly reclining shrub with soft woody lower stems, fleshy upper stems and a fringe of hairs along the upper edge of leaf scars. Narrow leaves occur in threes. Broad branched arrays carry white discoid florets and often purple, glandular bracts. The dry fruits have a narrow scaly pappus. 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.