Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_wikstroemia_uva_ursi
ʻĀkia
Wikstroemia uva-ursi
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About ʻĀkia
A densely branched prostrate-to-sprawling native shrub with appressed-hairy young twigs. Small thick firm elliptic-to-rounded leaves are dark-to-grayish green above and paler beneath. Clusters of yellow tubular calyces develop into bright-red-to-crimson ellipsoid fruits on female plants. 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
- Wikstroemia uva-ursi
- Hawaiian names
- ʻākia · kauhi
- Other names
- Wikstroemia uva-ursi · ʻākia · kauhi
- 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. Use a fruiting female Kauaʻi form. Perfect flowers reported from some Maui plants are not transferred to this reconstruction. Show one coherent rounded-leaf form.
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; Densely branching, prostrate or sprawling shrubs up to 1.5 m tall; young branches very densely gray, yellow, or reddish brown appressed pubescent.
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 densely branched prostrate-to-sprawling native shrub with appressed-hairy young twigs. Small thick firm elliptic-to-rounded leaves are dark-to-grayish green above and paler beneath. Clusters of yellow tubular calyces develop into bright-red-to-crimson ellipsoid fruits on female plants. 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.