Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_euphorbia_eleanoriae
ʻAkoko
Euphorbia eleanoriae
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About ʻAkoko
A small, hairless, densely branched shrub with brittle ascending shoots and tiny smooth-edged leaves, gray-green below. Terminal flower cups have purple glands bearing conspicuous white petal-like appendages. The three-angled capsules are green with purple-red edges and tips, and seeds are smooth brownish white. 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 eleanoriae
- Hawaiian names
- ʻakoko · koko · ʻekoko · kōkōmālei
- Other names
- Euphorbia eleanoriae · 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. The white structures are cyathial gland appendages, not true petals.
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; Small shrub (12-)20-40 cm tall, glabrous, densely branched, branches erect-ascending, brittle, basal stems with dark gray, longitudinally fissured bark, leafy branches 0.6-1 mm diameter, longitudinally furrowed, green or red-tinted, internodes 6-30 mm long; stipules broadly triangular or obtuse and rounded, 0.5-1 X 1-2 mm, externally glabrous, internally villosulous, occasionally bifid, margin brown, erose, with scattered dark colleters.
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 small, hairless, densely branched shrub with brittle ascending shoots and tiny smooth-edged leaves, gray-green below. Terminal flower cups have purple glands bearing conspicuous white petal-like appendages. The three-angled capsules are green with purple-red edges and tips, and seeds are smooth brownish white. 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.