Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_myrsine_linearifolia
Kōlea
Myrsine linearifolia
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About Kōlea
A shrub with slender ascending branches and very narrow, slightly fleshy linear leaves about two-and-a-half to four millimeters wide. Leaf tips are long-tapered, curved and often hooked; margins are smooth and slightly rolled. Tiny greenish axillary flowers are followed by small black ellipsoid drupes. 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
- Myrsine linearifolia
- Hawaiian names
- kōlea
- Other names
- Myrsine linearifolia · kōlea
- 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 extremely narrow linear blades are diagnostic; do not widen them into generic elliptic leaves.
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; Branched shrubs 2.5-8 m tall; branches green to reddish brown, ascending, slender, glabrous.
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 shrub with slender ascending branches and very narrow, slightly fleshy linear leaves about two-and-a-half to four millimeters wide. Leaf tips are long-tapered, curved and often hooked; margins are smooth and slightly rolled. Tiny greenish axillary flowers are followed by small black ellipsoid drupes. 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.