Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lysimachia_hillebrandii
Kolokolo Kuahiwi
Lysimachia hillebrandii
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About Kolokolo Kuahiwi
A sprawling shrub with many short lateral shoots, reddish-brown bark and rusty hairs on young growth. Alternate elliptic-to-ovate leaves have pointed tips and become nearly hairless. Solitary reddish-purple-to-burgundy bell flowers show darker veins and five to eight lobes. Small rounded capsules contain nearly black, slightly wing-margined 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
- Lysimachia hillebrandii
- Hawaiian names
- kolokolo kuahiwi · kolekole lehua · kolokolo lehua · puahekili
- Other names
- Lysimachia hillebrandii · kolokolo kuahiwi · kolekole lehua · kolokolo lehua · puahekili · Lysimachia ovoidea
- 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; Sprawling shrubs, bark reddish brown, striate; stems 4-25 dm long, branched, often with numerous short lateral branches, young ones rusty tomentose, soon glabrate.
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 sprawling shrub with many short lateral shoots, reddish-brown bark and rusty hairs on young growth. Alternate elliptic-to-ovate leaves have pointed tips and become nearly hairless. Solitary reddish-purple-to-burgundy bell flowers show darker veins and five to eight lobes. Small rounded capsules contain nearly black, slightly wing-margined 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.