Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lepidium_serra
ʻĀnaunau
Lepidium serra
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About ʻĀnaunau
A small, many-branched shrub with thin elliptic-to-narrow leaves crowded at shoot tips. Sharp marginal teeth extend to the leaf base. Branched flower racemes produce small, roughly round flattened fruits that are wider than long and lack a tip notch. Reddish-brown rounded seeds have thin wings. 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
- Lepidium serra
- Hawaiian names
- ʻānaunau
- Other names
- Lepidium serra · ʻānaunau
- 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; Small, many-branched shrubs 6-12(-18) dm tall.
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 small, many-branched shrub with thin elliptic-to-narrow leaves crowded at shoot tips. Sharp marginal teeth extend to the leaf base. Branched flower racemes produce small, roughly round flattened fruits that are wider than long and lack a tip notch. Reddish-brown rounded seeds have thin wings. 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.