Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_syndetica
Naʻenaʻe
Dubautia syndetica
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About Naʻenaʻe
An openly branched shrub with opposite narrow elliptic to oblanceolate leaves, paler below, and shallow marginal teeth. Clustered discoid heads have purple glands and bracts. Pale greenish-yellow florets become purple with age. Small black, bristly dry fruits carry a narrow 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 syndetica
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- Other names
- Dubautia syndetica · 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.
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; Openly branching shrubs 1-2(-3) m tall, vegetative stems glabrous to sparsely hispidulous, mostly pale, gray-brown when dry, the leaf scars mostly glabrous; flowering stems usually hispid.
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 openly branched shrub with opposite narrow elliptic to oblanceolate leaves, paler below, and shallow marginal teeth. Clustered discoid heads have purple glands and bracts. Pale greenish-yellow florets become purple with age. Small black, bristly dry fruits carry a narrow 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.