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Cyanea kuhihewa Lammers, 1996

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 2003

Rediscovered in December 2017 (Wood et al., 2019:1)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild)

 

Distribution

upper Limahuli Valley, Kaua'i, Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Lammers, T.G. 1996. A new linear-leaved Cyanea (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) from Kaua`i, and the discovery of Cyanea linearifolia. Brittonia 48: 237-240.

 

Other references:

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]

Lorence, D. H. (2016). Cyanea kuhihewa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T80230488A80230494. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T80230488A80230494.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.

Rønsted, N. and Wood, Kenneth R. (2020). Cyanea kuhihewa: Rediscovering one of Hawai'i's rarest trees. Plants, People, Planet. 2020: 1-4.

WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/

Wood, Kenneth R. (2007). New plant records, rediscoveries, range extensions, and possible extinctions within the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 96: 13-17.

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.

http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20180410.pdf

http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20150420.pdf

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kauai-botanists-rediscover-extinct-plant

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2701/cyanea-kuhihewa

 

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