Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_euphorbia_sparsiflora
ʻAkoko
Euphorbia sparsiflora
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About ʻAkoko
A low ascending subshrub with gray to pale-brown bark and opposite, small, bluish-green leaves with smooth margins. Solitary leaf-axil flower cups have purple glands and red styles. Recurved stalks carry hairless, three-angled green-to-red capsules with small brown-to-gray 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 sparsiflora
- Hawaiian names
- ʻakoko · koko · ʻekoko · kōkōmālei
- Other names
- Euphorbia sparsiflora · 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.
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, bark gray to pale brown; stems ascending, 0.2-0.6 m long, glabrous, 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 ascending subshrub with gray to pale-brown bark and opposite, small, bluish-green leaves with smooth margins. Solitary leaf-axil flower cups have purple glands and red styles. Recurved stalks carry hairless, three-angled green-to-red capsules with small brown-to-gray 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.