Dubautia paleata

A.Gray (1861)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Dubautia

na‘ena‘e pua kea [naenae pua kea]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Upright (erect) shrub, 0.3–2.5 m tall.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite or whorled. Blades elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or oblong Apex acuminate or acute. Base attenuate. Margins ciliolate, revolute, or serrate/dentate.

Flowers:

Fruit: Fruit a simple; dry; achene (cypsela);

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 5: 135 (1861)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:303 (K); Carr 1999:154 (KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen 2-2.5 m shrub, branches intermingled with 2m+ ohia of glabrous type (var. glabrifolia) Takeuchi, W.N. 124 Kauai BISH 1983-07-31
2 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bush 1-2 m ht, stems purple, flowers white Kores, P.J. 130 Kauai BISH 1979-09-02
3 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 2837 Kauai BISH 1938-08-13
4 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Short, erect or lax shrub with white flowers Herbst, D.R. 2185 Kauai BISH 1971-10-03
5 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. 479 Kauai BISH 1987-06-19
6 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Shrub 4 ft ht with fruit Perlman, S. 22992 Kauai BISH 2012-09-18
7 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 914 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
8 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Small, hairy Stone, B.C. 1545 Kauai BISH 1956-12-27
9 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a treefern and native shrub understory. Growing in bog. Preserved_Specimen Shrub, 2 cm Bd, 1.75 m tall Higashino, P.K. 9612 Kauai BISH 1981-05-12
10 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 4998 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
11 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1700 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
12 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5048 Kauai BISH 1983-08-30
13 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5009 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
14 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Carr, G.D. 1375 Kauai BISH 1987-06-02
15 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Cranwell, L.M. 3944 Kauai BISH 1938-08-15
16 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Carr, G.D. 1374 Kauai BISH 1987-06-02
17 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Skottsberg, C.J.F. 955 Kauai BISH 1922-10-27
18 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 8879 Kauai BISH 1911-10-20
19 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Chock, A.K. 1175 Kauai BISH 1953-09-04
20 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 5009 Kauai BISH 1909-09-01
21 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Meebold, A. Kauai BISH 1938-11-01
22 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1916-10-01
23 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1916-10-01
24 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Degener, O. Kauai BISH 1952-01-19
25 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Medeiros, A.C. 526 Kauai BISH 1983-09-04
26 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Medeiros, A.C. 518 Kauai BISH 1983-09-04
27 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen College of Hawaii Herbarium Kauai BISH
28 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17101 Kauai BISH 1916-10-01
29 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. Kauai BISH 1956-02-01
30 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 100 BISH
31 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of and hummecks in bog Preserved_Specimen Scrubby hummock in bog St.John, H. 23065 Kauai BISH 1947-12-25
32 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Common only along rim of bog Preserved_Specimen Spreading, 2-3 ft tall shrub, florets grayish white. Degener, O. 21712 Kauai BISH 1952-01-19
33 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of swamp Preserved_Specimen Sprawling 2 ft high bush, florets yellow. Degener, O. 23953 Kauai BISH 1955-09-18
34 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest with Dicranopteris, Sticherus, and Diplopterygium matting ferns, with bogs in area Melicope clusiifolia, M. kavaiensis, Myrsine wawraea, Broussaisia, arguta, Diplazium sanwichianum, Athyrium microphyllum, Asplenium polypodon, A. sphenotomum Preserved_Specimen tree, in ridge bog, 1 m tall, florets white Wood, K.R. 15378 Kauai BISH 2013-01-30
35 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Marsh Preserved_Specimen Lydgate, J.M. Kauai BISH
36 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in ohia pole stand, in shrub layer with Clermontia, Pelea, & Broussaisia Preserved_Specimen A sprawling, limby shrub up to 2.5 m ht Takeuchi, W.N. 127 Kauai BISH 1983-07-31
37 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of Ohia/Kuolohia/Oreobolus (Metrosideros polymorpha var. Pumilla/ Rhynchospora chinensis subsp. Spiciformis / Oreobolus furcatus) Mixed Bog Metrosideros polymorpha var. Pumilla, Cibotium glaucum, C. Menziesii, Leptecophyllum tameiameiae, Coprosma elliptica, Rhyncospora chinensis subsp. Spiciformis. Growing in full sun on bog margin near fenceline, just inside, occasional along this Southeast side of the bog, mixed with Metrosideros polymorpha. Preserved_Specimen A sprawling patch, 1m tall or less, 2 m across, in full bloom. Flowers white, peduncles and pedicels dark purple, pilose, held mostly erect. Leaves medium green, pubescent. A.M. Williams 835 Kauai BISH 2023-10-03
38 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details marshy; Metrosideros, Styphelia, grasses, sedges, herbs; open Preserved_Specimen 1 m shrub, involucres purple green, disc florets white, fading purplish Lorence, D.H. 5703 Kauai BISH 1987-11-11
39 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dominated by Metrosideros and Rhynchospora, Oreobolis, Lepticophylla tameiameiae, Wikestroemia, Carex montis-eeka, gahnia beechyii, bog margins of Metrosideros, Melicope clusiifolia, Dubautia paleata Preserved_Specimen Shrub, 50cm tall, forming dome like habit, florets white, occasional in bogs Wood, K.R. 12542 Kauai BISH 2007-09-09
40 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Swampy upper forest Preserved_Specimen 1 m shrub, flowers white St.John, H. 23043 Kauai BISH 1947-12-25
41 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details On cliff area facing N-NE, in very wet area Preserved_Specimen Shrub 5 ft Wood, K.R. 33 Kauai BISH 1987-07-29
42 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Dubautia-Sadleria shrubland/fernland, high wind summit slopes With Psychotria mariniana, Kadua affinis, Melicope clusiifolia, M. waialealae, Vaccinium calycinum, Coprosma kauaense, Dubautia laxa, D. Paleata, D. imbricata acronaea, Machaerina angustifolia, Sadleria Preserved_Specimen Shrub, 70 cm tall, florets white, common Wood, K.R. 14837 Kauai BISH 2012-01-11
43 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In company with Cibotium, ohia, & uluhe Preserved_Specimen Shrub 1 m ht Takeuchi, W.N. 124 Kauai BISH 1983-07-31
44 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros, Oreobolus, Rhynchospora rugosa, Campylopus, Plantago, Cheirodendron, Tetraplasandra, Myrsine, Cyanea, Trematolobelia, Lobelia, Cyrtandra, Juncus, Stenogyne, Hedyotis, Ilex, Eurya, Bidens, Melicope, Labordia, Coprosma, bryophytes Preserved_Specimen 1.25 m shrub; disk flowes white; infloresence hairy and purple; leaf base purple on upper leaves, lower leaves pale-yellow Wood, K.R. 145 Kauai BISH 1988-08-24
45 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. W/ mixed sedges and grasses including Rhynchospora chinensis spiciformis, R. rugosa lavarum, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, herbs of Plantago pachyphylla, Viola, shrubs of Metrosideros, Preserved_Specimen Dubau shrub, 1 m tall, moderately branched, lvs dark green, peduncles purple, florets white, involucre purple, common. Wood, K.R. 12507 Kauai BISH 2007-08-30
46 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details montane bogs; Rhynchospora chinensis, R. rugosa, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, Plantago pachyphylla, Viola, Metrosideros, Dubautia waialealae, D. imbricata, D. laxa, Cheirodendron dominii, Leptecophylla tameiameiae Preserved_Specimen 1 m shrub; leaves medium green, pellucid in light, disk florests white Wood, K.R. 11672 Kauai BISH 2005-12-30
47 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Ohia woods Preserved_Specimen Spindly, trailing shrub, to 5 ft ht, corolla white Crosby, M.R. 2012 Kauai BISH 1964-08-12
48 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Exocarpos Bog, Open bog. Dominated by Metrosideros and Rhynchospora, Oreobolis, Lepticophylla tameiameiae, Wikestroemia, Carex montis-eeka, Gahnia beechyii, bog margins of Metrosideros, Melicope clusiifolia, Dubautia paleata Preserved_Specimen Tree, 1m tall, compact with dome crown, florets white Wood, K.R. 12546 Kauai BISH 2007-09-09
49 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In tundra Preserved_Specimen Shrublet 30 cm ht. Lvs olive green, lighter below, petiole & youngest part of branchlet purple. Involucrum green with purple tops, florets creamy white. van Royen, P. 11734 Kauai BISH 1977-09-03
50 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a treefern and native shrub understory. Preserved_Specimen Higashino, P.K. 9659 Kauai BISH 1981-05-13
51 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing at edge of bog assoc. with Pelea, Wikstroemia, Cheirodendron helleri, C. kauaiense, Metrosideros polymorpha, Lobelia gaudichaudii kauaiensis, etc. Preserved_Specimen Low shrub, 3-4 ft tall. Gustafson, R. 1075 Kauai BISH 1978-11-26
52 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Under break in the ohia canopy, in company with Vaccinium calycinum & Pelea clusiifolia Preserved_Specimen Sprawling shrub up to 2 m ht Takeuchi, W.N. 85 Kauai BISH 1981-08-01
53 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. W/ mixed sedges and grasses including Rhynchospora chinensis spiciformis, R. rugosa lavarum, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, herbs of Plantago pachyphylla, Viola, shrubs of Metrosideros, Preserved_Specimen Dubau shrub, 1.5 m tall, young stems purple, peduncle and involucre purple, common. Wood, K.R. 12520 Kauai BISH 2007-08-30
54 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of swamp. Preserved_Specimen Sprawling 2 ft. high bush; flowers yellow. Degener, O. 23953 Kauai BISH 1955-09-18
55 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of open bog Preserved_Specimen Shrub 7 ft ht Neal, M.C. Kauai BISH 1936-08-17
56 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of bog Preserved_Specimen Sprawling 2 ft high bush, florets whitish. Degener, O. 23954 Kauai BISH 1955-09-18
57 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros-Cheirodendron montane wet forest with Dicranopteris, on side stream above cliffs w/Sadleria pallida, Machaerina angustifolia, Gahnia beecheyi, Gahnia vibiensis kauaiensis, Metrosideros walalealae, M. polymorpha var. glaberrima, M. p. dieteri, Cheirodendron fauiei, C. trigynum, C Preserved_Specimen Shrub, 1-2 m tall, fully branched, with old inflorescence, with D. laxa hirsuta, occasional Wood, K.R. 16020 Kauai BISH 2014-07-31
58 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. W/ mixed sedges and grasses including Rhynchospora chinensis spiciformis, R. rugosa lavarum, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, herbs of Plantago pachyphylla, Viola, shrubs of Metrosideros, Dubau Preserved_Specimen shrub, 1.5 m tall, moderately branched, stems light brown or green-brown, inflorescence with pink or purple tinge on peduncle and pedicles, florets white, common Wood, K.R. 12528 Kauai BISH 2007-08-30
59 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet open bog with scattered native shrubs Preserved_Specimen Higashino, P.K. 9631 Kauai BISH 1981-05-12
60 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In the low-statured vegetation of the second bog Preserved_Specimen Takeuchi, W.N. 15 Kauai BISH 1982-09-25
61 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In shrubberies bordering the bogs, sometimes in the swamp forest or bogs, in general, in open areas Preserved_Specimen Widely, laxly branched shrub 0.3-2 m ht. Lvs light green or greenish yellow, white at base, lighter on underside. Involucurm green, often with purple tinge, florets creamy white, hardly fragrant. van Royen, P. 11706 Kauai BISH 1977-09-01
62 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of and hummecks in bog Preserved_Specimen Christensen, C. 100 Kauai BISH 1976-12-14
63 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Wet ohia forest with other native trees and a treefern and native shrub understory. Preserved_Specimen Erect shrub, 4 cm Bd, 2 m tall, pubescent lvs 3. Warshauer, F.R. 3366 Kauai BISH 1981-05-11
64 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Bogs dissected w/ riparian veg of Metrosideros-Cheirodendron forest. W/ mixed sedges and grasses including Rhynchospora chinensis spiciformis, R. rugosa lavarum, Dichanthelium, Deschampsia, Machaerina, herbs of Plantago pachyphylla, Viola, shrubs of Metrosideros, Preserved_Specimen Dubau shrub, 1.5 m tall, moderately branched, stems light brown or green-brown, inflorescence with pink or purple tinge on peduncle and pedicels, florets white, common. Wood, K.R. 12528 Kauai BISH 2007-08-30
65 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Edge of bog Preserved_Specimen 5 ft bush Degener, O. 23952 Kauai BISH 1955-09-18
66 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Open, inundated, wind swept ridge . Growing out of thick bryophyte mat. W/ Melicope waialeale, Syzygium sandwicense, Cheirodendron sp., Machaerina angustifolia, Viola kauaiensis, Smilax melastomifolia, Dicranopteris linearis, Sadleria sp., Broussaisia arguta Preserved_Specimen About 1.5 feet tall. All parts of plant pubescent. Peduncle purple. Flower white. Walsh, S. 91 Kauai BISH 2015-08-27
67 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details In rian forest Preserved_Specimen Bush 5 ft ht, stems purplish, flowers white Kores, P.J. 136 Kauai BISH 1979-09-02
68 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Growing in low stature (3-4m) Ohia stand Preserved_Specimen 4 ft hit shrub, long main stem trailing along ground Takeuchi, W.N. 128 Kauai BISH 1983-07-31
69 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Metrosideros forest at edge of open bog. Preserved_Specimen Shrub or small tree to 8 ft, flowers white Carlquist, S. 1772 Kauai BISH 1965-07-20
70 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Much branched shrub about 5 ft ht, erect, just finishing flowering season Herbst, D.R. 2172 Kauai BISH 1971-10-03
71 Dubautia paleata Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Bush 1-2 m ht, stems purple, flowers white Kores, P.J. 130 Kauai BISH 1979-09-02