Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_dubautia_waialealae
Naʻenaʻe
Dubautia waialealae
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About Naʻenaʻe
A low, compact cushion shrub with rough woody stems and closely overlapping small leaves in whorls of three or four. Leaves have a few teeth near their tips and fine marginal hairs. Small branched clusters carry yellow discoid florets. Hairy dry fruits bear narrow pappus 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 waialealae
- Hawaiian names
- naʻenaʻe · kūpaoa
- Other names
- Dubautia waialealae · 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; Low, compact, rounded, cushion-like shrubs 1-5 dm tall; stems soon becoming woody, rough, enveloped in the numerous, closely spaced but interrupted petiole bases, moderately to copiously 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
- A low, compact cushion shrub with rough woody stems and closely overlapping small leaves in whorls of three or four. Leaves have a few teeth near their tips and fine marginal hairs. Small branched clusters carry yellow discoid florets. Hairy dry fruits bear narrow pappus 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.