Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_coprosma_elliptica
Pilo
Coprosma elliptica
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About Pilo
Pilo (Coprosma elliptica) is recorded as an established shrub on Kauaʻi. A compact, often very low shrub with closely spaced opposite leaves. Plants in forest around bogs can be more sprawling and larger-leaved. Stems may root at their nodes. Male and female reproductive structures occur on separate plants; habitat-linked variation is important for identification. Documented component of native vegetation; wild-population survival, recruitment and occupied vegetation cover provide measurable conservation endpoints.
Kauaʻi evidence
Established island occurrence follows the Bishop Museum checklist. Diagnostic morphology follows Smithsonian Hawaiian Flora; accepted identity follows Kew WCVP. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Coprosma elliptica
- Hawaiian names
- pilo · hupilo
- Other names
- Coprosma elliptica · pilo · hupilo
- 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
- Current extent and island effect sizes are unassessed. Public occurrence remains island-level only.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Montane bog vegetation · Forest bordering bogs
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Local pollinators, flowering schedules, seedling establishment and recruitment rates are not independently assessed.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Repeated counts of wild recruits and mature plants; Native vegetation cover in comparison plots. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island population extent and trend · Quantified local environmental effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Pilo (Coprosma elliptica) is recorded as an established shrub on Kauaʻi. A compact, often very low shrub with closely spaced opposite leaves. Plants in forest around bogs can be more sprawling and larger-leaved. Stems may root at their nodes. Male and female reproductive structures occur on separate plants; habitat-linked variation is important for identification. Documented component of native vegetation; wild-population survival, recruitment and occupied vegetation cover provide measurable conservation endpoints.