Argyroxiphium virescens Hillebr.

'ahinahina

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Argyroxiphium forbesii

Conservation Status

Missing (Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019:SD1; Abeli et al., 2022b)

Last record: 1945 (Wood et al., 2019); 1945 (pure individual); 1996 (hybrid)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Haleakala Crater, Maui (east), Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

"We also checked...specimens of the extinct species, A. virescens. No leaf mines were found on these herbarium specimens." (Kobayashi et al., 2021)

Hypodigm

Media

References

Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022a). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250892/v1

Abeli, Thomas, Sharrock, Suzanne and Albani Rocchetti, Giulia. (2022b). Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction. Nature Plants 8: 1370-1373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01293-w

Bruegmann, M. M. and Caraway, V. (2003). Argyroxiphium virescens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2003: e.T44078A10848934. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2003.RLTS.T44078A10848934.en. Downloaded on 16 November 2016.

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Imada, C.T., Wagner, W.L. & Herbst, D.R. (1989). Checklist of native and naturalised flowering plants of Hawai'i. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 29: 1-87.

Kobayashi, Shigeki, Johns, Chris A. and Kawahara, Akito Y. (2021). Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4944(1): 1-175. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4944.1.1

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Rare plant database. Unpublished.

Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer S. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication 91: 1-1918.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

Wood, Kenneth R., Oppenheimer, Hank and Keir, Matthew. (2019). A checklist of endemic Hawaiian vascular plant taxa that are considered possibly extinct in the wild. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Technical Report #314.

http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20180410.pdf

http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20150420.pdf

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/102/argyroxiphium-virescens

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