Clermontia haleakalensis Rock, 1913:489

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Now considered a synonym of Cyanea pohaku (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym of Cyanea pohaku) (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1975 or prior [by implication] (Fosberg & Herbst, 1975)

Previously considered Extinct (Fosberg & Herbst, 1975:10), prior to synonymisation under Cyanea pohaku (Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024).

Distribution

Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

Rock (1913) has a photo of a living individual.

References

Original scientific description:

Rock, J. F. (1913). The indigenous trees of the Hawaiian Islands. Publ. privately, Honolulu. 512 pp. (Rep., with introduction by S. Carlquist and addendum by D.R. Herbst, 1974, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, VT. 548 pp.).

Other 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

Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

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]

POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.

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 24 November 2024]

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