Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_kadua_cordata
Kopa
Kadua cordata
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About Kopa
A weakly erect to climbing, usually few-branched subshrub with smooth, often bluish-coated stems and broadly ovate-to-elliptic pointed leaves. Terminal branching clusters are partly obscured by leafy bracts. Fleshy pale-green-to-yellowish or cream tubular flowers have rolled-back lobes. Small top-shaped to rounded capsules contain dark-brown angular 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
- Kadua cordata
- Hawaiian names
- kopa
- Other names
- Kadua cordata · kopa
- 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. Choose one coherent regional form; do not mix distinctive traits of different varieties.
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, usually few-branched; stems weakly erect to scandent, terete to weakly quadrangular, rarely sharply so, (6-)10-60 dm long, glabrous and usually conspicuously glaucous.
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 weakly erect to climbing, usually few-branched subshrub with smooth, often bluish-coated stems and broadly ovate-to-elliptic pointed leaves. Terminal branching clusters are partly obscured by leafy bracts. Fleshy pale-green-to-yellowish or cream tubular flowers have rolled-back lobes. Small top-shaped to rounded capsules contain dark-brown angular 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.