Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_vaccinium_dentatum
ʻŌhelo
Vaccinium dentatum
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About ʻŌhelo
A decumbent-to-sprawling native shrub with leathery elliptic leaves, larger than those of Vaccinium reticulatum, and serrate margins. A representative red urn-like flower form has greenish lobes. Lanceolate calyx lobes exceed the calyx tube at flowering. Rounded berries ripen bright red to scarlet and contain numerous small 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
- Vaccinium dentatum
- Hawaiian names
- ʻōhelo
- Other names
- Vaccinium dentatum · ʻōhelo
- 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. Keep the larger elliptic leaves and long lanceolate calyx lobes. Do not combine every reported flower-color pattern on the representative plant.
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; Decumbent, sprawling, or weakly rhizomatous shrubs 0.3-2(-3) m 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 decumbent-to-sprawling native shrub with leathery elliptic leaves, larger than those of Vaccinium reticulatum, and serrate margins. A representative red urn-like flower form has greenish lobes. Lanceolate calyx lobes exceed the calyx tube at flowering. Rounded berries ripen bright red to scarlet and contain numerous small 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.