Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_melicope_nealae
Alani
Melicope nealae
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About Alani
A sprawling shrub with densely felted new growth and opposite leathery elliptic-to-obovate leaves, usually notched at the tip. Lower leaf surfaces bear hairs and arched marginal veins. Small leaf-axil flower clusters are reported, but floral details are unknown. Broad green capsules have carpels united for about half their length. 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 nealae
- Hawaiian names
- alani · alani kuahiwi
- Other names
- Melicope nealae · 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. Flowers are anatomically unverified and the described seeds are immature. Do not invent open flowers or ripe seed details.
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 shrubs, new growth densely tomentose, branches becoming glabrate; stems up to a few m 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 sprawling shrub with densely felted new growth and opposite leathery elliptic-to-obovate leaves, usually notched at the tip. Lower leaf surfaces bear hairs and arched marginal veins. Small leaf-axil flower clusters are reported, but floral details are unknown. Broad green capsules have carpels united for about half their length. 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.