Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_melicope_feddei
Alani
Melicope feddei
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About Alani
A sprawling, prostrate or erect shrub with reddish-brown young branches and opposite, smooth, gland-dotted elliptic leaves. Leaves are rounded to shallowly notched at their tips. Small resinous flower clusters occur in leaf axils. Reddish-green capsules have slightly ascending carpels joined only in their lower quarter or less, with one or two seeds per carpel. 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
- Melicope feddei
- Hawaiian names
- alani · alani kuahiwi
- Other names
- Melicope feddei · alani · alani kuahiwi
- 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 account does not specify petal or seed color. A foliage and capsule inset avoids unsupported color construction.
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; Sprawling, prostrate, or erect shrubs 1-2 m tall, new growth minutely yellowish or grayish puberulent, quickly becoming glabrate; young branches reddish brown.
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 sprawling, prostrate or erect shrub with reddish-brown young branches and opposite, smooth, gland-dotted elliptic leaves. Leaves are rounded to shallowly notched at their tips. Small resinous flower clusters occur in leaf axils. Reddish-green capsules have slightly ascending carpels joined only in their lower quarter or less, with one or two seeds per carpel. 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.