Cyanea eleeleensis (H.St.John) Lammers (1992:129)

`Oha, haha, `Ohawai, `oha Wai

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Delissea eleeleensis H.St.John in Phytologia 63: 341 (1987)

Conservation Status

Missing (Suckling et al., 2004 [as "extinct or missing"]; Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct (Bruegmann et al., 2016a,b; Humphreys et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

Last record: 1970 (Wood et al., 2019); 1977 (Suckling et al., 2004:48/63; Bruegmann et al., 2016a,b; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; NatureServe, 2024); 19 July 1977 (Wood, 2012:92)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

"The `Oha, haha, or `Ohawai (Cyanea eleeleensis) is known only from the type specimen collected in 1977 on private land in the Wainiha Valley on Kauai, where it had less than ten individuals when discovered. It was considered to be a population of an existing species of Cyanea until 1992, when it was described as a new species. It has not been since originally discovered in 1977."

(Suckling et al., 2004:48/63)

Distribution

Wainiha Valley, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

St. John, Harold. (1987). Diagnoses of Delissea species (Lobeliaceae) from Kaua‘i: Hawaiian plant studies 145. Phytologia 63: 339-349.

Other references:

Bruegmann, M., Caraway, V. L. and Clark, M. (2016a). Cyanea eleeleensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44096A83790877. Downloaded on 10 September 2016.

Bruegmann, M., Caraway, V. L. and Clark, M. (2016b). Cyanea eleeleensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T44096A83790877. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T44096A83790877.en. Accessed on 14 June 2022.

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]

Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Lammers, Thomas G. (1992). Two new combinations in the endemic Hawaiian genus Cyanea (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae). Novon 2: 129-131.

Lammers, Thomas G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

NatureServe. (2024). NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 7 September 2024]

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 7 September 2024]

Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.

USFWS (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service). (2001). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants: Review of plant and animal species that are candidates or proposed for listing as endangered or threatened, annual notice of findings on recycled petitions, and annual description of progress on listing actions; proposed rule. Federal Register 66: 54808-54832.

USFWS. (2002). Candidate and listing priority assignment form: Cyanea eleeleensis. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.

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. (1999). Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk: 1999. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 60: 1-58.

Wagner, Warren L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. (1990). Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Univ. Hawaii Press and Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1853 pp.

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

Wood, Kenneth R. (2012). Possible Extinctions, Rediscoveries, and New Plant Records within the Hawaiian Islands. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011. Edited by Neal L. Evenhuis & Lucius G. Eldredge. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 91-102.

Wood, Kenneth R. (2015). Survey Results for Eight Possibly Extinct Plant Species from Kaua`i, Hawai`i. Prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, FWS Agreement No. F12AC00737. 293 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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