Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_isodendrion_pyrifolium
Wahine Noho Kula
Isodendrion pyrifolium
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About Wahine Noho Kula
A branched shrub with young shoots and leaf veins bearing forward-directed hairs. Elliptic-ovate to narrow leaves have fine teeth or nearly smooth margins and short pointed tips. The account describes elongated flower petals but qualifies their color as probably greenish yellow. Ovoid-to-ellipsoid capsules contain olive seeds with a dark central mark. 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 pyrifolium
- Hawaiian names
- wahine noho kula · aupaka
- Other names
- Isodendrion pyrifolium · wahine noho kula · 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. Flower color remains qualified in the primary account. Prefer a vegetative inset rather than displaying an unverified color as certain.
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; Branched shrubs ca. 8-20 dm tall; branches pilose at least when young (hairs antrorsely appressed), leafy at apex to ca. 5 cm below, ± glabrate with age.
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 branched shrub with young shoots and leaf veins bearing forward-directed hairs. Elliptic-ovate to narrow leaves have fine teeth or nearly smooth margins and short pointed tips. The account describes elongated flower petals but qualifies their color as probably greenish yellow. Ovoid-to-ellipsoid capsules contain olive seeds with a dark central mark. 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.