Polyscias lydgatei (Hillebr.) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett (2010:74)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered [by implication]
Known to be extant today (Motley, 2005), but it was previously considered possibly Extinct ("poEX") by (Fosberg & Herbst, 1975:8).
Distribution & Habitat
Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Fosberg, F. R. and Herbst, Derral R. (1975). Rare and endangered species of Hawaiian vascular plants. Allertonia 1(1): 1-72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23189952
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Govaerts, R. H. A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lowry, P. P. II (1990). Tetraplasandra, pp. 232-237. In: Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i. University of Hawai‘i Press/Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.
Lowry, P. P. II and Plunkett, G. M. (2010). Recircumscription of Polyscias (Araliaceae) to include six related genera, with a new infrageneric classification and a synopsis of species. Plant Div. Evol. 128: 55-84.
Motley, T. (2005). Tetraplasandra lydgatei (Araliaceae): Taxonomic Recognition of a Rare, Endemic Species from O`ahu, Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 59(1): 105-110. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24165
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Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., Khan, N. and Flynn, T. (2012). Hawaiian vascular plant updates: a supplement to the manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i and Hawai'i's ferns and fern allies, version 1.3. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA.