Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_exocarpos_luteolus
Heau
Exocarpos luteolus
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About Heau
A green-stemmed shrub that branches most densely toward its tips. It carries both scale-like leaves and larger stalkless elliptic to obovate leaves. Tiny green flowers have five or six petals. Pale-yellow cylindrical drupes sit partly embedded in a golden-yellow fleshy receptacle and have a notched, flattened apex. 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
- Exocarpos luteolus
- Hawaiian names
- heau · au
- Other names
- Exocarpos luteolus · heau · au
- 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. Retain the distinctive drupe and fleshy receptacle geometry; do not replace them with generic spherical berries.
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 0.5-2 m tall; stems green, moderately to densely branched, especially toward the apex.
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 green-stemmed shrub that branches most densely toward its tips. It carries both scale-like leaves and larger stalkless elliptic to obovate leaves. Tiny green flowers have five or six petals. Pale-yellow cylindrical drupes sit partly embedded in a golden-yellow fleshy receptacle and have a notched, flattened apex. 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.