Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_cookiana
ʻĀwiwi
Kadua cookiana
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About ʻĀwiwi
A very small, many-branched shrub with thread-like leaves only about half to one millimeter wide. The leaf bases join in a sheath and stipules are reduced to narrow pointed ridges. Small clusters carry fleshy white tubular flowers. Tiny top-shaped to rounded capsules contain angled reddish-brown seeds. 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
- Kadua cookiana
- Hawaiian names
- ʻāwiwi
- Other names
- Kadua cookiana · ʻāwiwi
- 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 exceptionally narrow linear leaves; do not substitute the broader leaves of Kadua elatior.
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; Small, many-branched shrubs; stems striate, to ca. 1-2 dm long, 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 very small, many-branched shrub with thread-like leaves only about half to one millimeter wide. The leaf bases join in a sheath and stipules are reduced to narrow pointed ridges. Small clusters carry fleshy white tubular flowers. Tiny top-shaped to rounded capsules contain angled reddish-brown seeds. 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.