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Argyroxiphium virescens Hillebr. (1888:219)

'ahinahina

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Argyroxiphium forbesii H.St.John in Pacific Sci. 25: 68 (1971); Argyroxiphium virescens var. paludosa H.St.John in Pacific Sci. 25: 70 (1971)

 

Conservation Status

Missing (Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct (Wagner et al., 1999a:17; Bruegmann & Caraway, 2003; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Humphreys et al., 2019; Abeli et al., 2022b; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1945 (Wood et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); 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)

 

 

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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 Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction.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 Out-of-date datasets hamper conservation of species close to extinction.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

Baillie, Jonathan E. M. and Butcher, Ellen R. (2012). Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.

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.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]

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, Warren L. and 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

POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 25 August 2024]

Roskov, Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

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 Unpublished.

Wagner, Warren L., Bruegmann, Marie M., Herbst, Derral M. and Lau, Joel Q. C. (1999a). Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk: 1999. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 60: 1-58.

Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer S. (1999b). 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.

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