Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_waltheria_indica
ʻUhaloa
Waltheria indica
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About ʻUhaloa
A rigid-stemmed erect-to-decumbent perennial subshrub, velvety with stellate hairs throughout. Short-stalked wrinkled ovate-to-lanceolate leaves have crenate-serrate margins and paler undersides. Dense axillary groups carry small fragrant yellow flowers with ribbed hairy calyces. Tiny rounded fruits contain smooth dark-brown-to-black obovoid 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
- Waltheria indica
- Hawaiian names
- ʻuhaloa · ʻalaʻala pū loa · hala ʻuhaloa · hiʻaloa · kanakaloa
- Other names
- Waltheria indica · ʻuhaloa · ʻalaʻala pū loa · hala ʻuhaloa · hiʻaloa · kanakaloa
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Indigenous
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Preserve velvety, wrinkled foliage and small crowded axillary flowers. Do not add large terminal daisy heads.
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; Perennial herb or subshrub, 0.3‒2 m tall; stems rather rigid, erect to sometimes decumbent, velvety tomentose throughout, hairs stellate.
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 rigid-stemmed erect-to-decumbent perennial subshrub, velvety with stellate hairs throughout. Short-stalked wrinkled ovate-to-lanceolate leaves have crenate-serrate margins and paler undersides. Dense axillary groups carry small fragrant yellow flowers with ribbed hairy calyces. Tiny rounded fruits contain smooth dark-brown-to-black obovoid 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.