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Kokia cookei O.Deg.

Cooke's kokio, Molokai Koki`o, Moloka'i treecotton

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Possibly extinct in the wild (Wood et al., 2019:9) or Extinct in the wild

Last record: 1900 (Wood et al., 2019:9); 1918

IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild

 

Distribution

Mahana, Molokai (western), Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268

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]

Morden, Clifford W. and Yorkston, Mitsuko. (2018). Speciation and Biogeography in the Hawaiian Endemic Genus Kokia (Malvaceae: Gossypieae). Pacific Science 72(2): 209-222. [Abstract]

Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.

Smith, Donal et al. (2023). Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species. Science 379(6634): eadd2889. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2889

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1997). Draft recovery plan for Kokia cookei. Portland, Oregon: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2016). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; designation and nondesignation of critical habitat on Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Kahoolawe for 135 species; final rule. Federal Register 81(61): 17789-18110.

Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. (1990). Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.

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.

Werden, Leland K. et al. (2020). Ex situ conservation of threatened plant species in island biodiversity hotspots: A case study from Hawai‘i. Biological Conservation 243: 108435. [Abstract]

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.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1998). Kokia cookei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T30932A9593744. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T30932A9593744.en. Downloaded on 06 May 2017.

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