Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_elatior
ʻĀwiwi
Kadua elatior
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About ʻĀwiwi
A loosely branched low subshrub forming clumps or mats. Thin narrow, often curved leaves taper at both ends, and their bases join into a short sheath. Terminal branching clusters carry white-to-green fleshy tubular flowers. Linear calyx lobes elongate in fruit; small top-shaped capsules contain dull dark-brown angular 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 elatior
- Hawaiian names
- ʻāwiwi
- Other names
- Kadua elatior · 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.
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; Lax, branched subshrubs often forming clumps or mats; stems ascending to weakly erect, nearly terete to quadrangular, ± slightly striate, usually 1-2 dm long.
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 loosely branched low subshrub forming clumps or mats. Thin narrow, often curved leaves taper at both ends, and their bases join into a short sheath. Terminal branching clusters carry white-to-green fleshy tubular flowers. Linear calyx lobes elongate in fruit; small top-shaped capsules contain dull dark-brown angular 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.