Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_euphorbia_degeneri
ʻAkoko
Euphorbia degeneri
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About ʻAkoko
A low, reclining subshrub with gnarled, hairy stems and small bluish-green rounded to kidney-shaped leaves in two ranks. Tiny flower cups occur mostly at branch tips and have green glands without petal-like appendages. Recurved stalks carry small green capsules with white, wrinkled 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
- Euphorbia degeneri
- Hawaiian names
- ʻakoko · koko · ʻekoko · kōkōmālei
- Other names
- Euphorbia degeneri · ʻakoko · koko · ʻekoko · kōkōmālei
- 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. Do not add showy petals; gland appendages are absent in this species.
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; Subshrubs; stems prostrate to decumbent, 0.05-0.4 m long, nodose, often tortuous and gnarled, pilose to villous, flowering branches 1-1.5 mm in diameter.
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 low, reclining subshrub with gnarled, hairy stems and small bluish-green rounded to kidney-shaped leaves in two ranks. Tiny flower cups occur mostly at branch tips and have green glands without petal-like appendages. Recurved stalks carry small green capsules with white, wrinkled 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.