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n., An endemic woody plant (Wilkesia gymnoxiphium 🌐), related to the ʻāhinahina or silversword, found only in western mountains of Kauaʻi. It is 1 to 4 m high, unbranched, the stems ending in clumps of long narrow leaves.

  • Examples:
    • ʻO ka iliau loha i ka lā (For. 4:283), the iliau drooping, in the sun.
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Nā LepiliTags: flora Kauaʻi

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s. A species of bush in the forest; nana aku he ka moloua ka iliau.

Iliau (ī'-lĭ-ă'u), n.

/ ī'-lĭ-ă'u / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A species of shrub (Wilkesia gymnoxiphium) having medicinal properties.

Trail, Wai-mea Canyon, northwest Kauaʻi, a native-plant preserve; of special interest is the iliau, a relative of the silversword, endemic to this region of Kauaʻi.

Woody plant (Argyroxiphium gymnoxephium) of the dry, western slopes of Kauaʻi, related to the silversword; a medicinal plant.

Native Hawaiian plant (Wilkesia gymnoxiphium) found only on the dry leeward slopes of Kauaʻi. A woody single-stem plant that grows to 12 feet. (NEAL 845.)

Native Hawaiian woody plant (Wilkesia gymnoxiphium), found on the dry western mountain slopes of Kauaʻi. Related to the āhinahina, silversword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense), a native plant found on Haleakalā, east Maui, and on high mountains of Hawaiʻi island, a rare and protected treasure of Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 845.)

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