Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_isodendrion_longifolium
Aupaka
Isodendrion longifolium
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About Aupaka
A few-branched upright shrub with long, leathery oblanceolate leaves clustered toward ascending shoot tips. Raised net veins and fine, remote marginal teeth distinguish the leaves. Small purple flowers are followed by purplish, slightly three-lobed ovoid-to-ellipsoid capsules with persistent style tips. 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
- Isodendrion longifolium
- Hawaiian names
- aupaka
- Other names
- Isodendrion longifolium · aupaka
- 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. The reviewed regional account did not observe seeds; omit seed reconstructions.
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; Few-branched, virgate shrubs (3-)6-20(-36) dm tall; branches erect or strongly ascending, leafy for (1-)10-20 cm below apex, glabrous.
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 few-branched upright shrub with long, leathery oblanceolate leaves clustered toward ascending shoot tips. Raised net veins and fine, remote marginal teeth distinguish the leaves. Small purple flowers are followed by purplish, slightly three-lobed ovoid-to-ellipsoid capsules with persistent style tips. 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.