Cyanea kuhihewa Lammers (1996:238)
Limahuli Valley cyanea
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Delissea kuhihewa (Lammers) Govaerts in World Checkl. Seed Pl. 3(1): 21 (1999)
Conservation Status
Last record: 2003 (Rønsted et al., 2020)
Rediscovered in December 2017 (Wood et al., 2019:1)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
upper Limahuli Valley, Kauai, 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:
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]
Kartesz, J. T. (1999). A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Lorence, D. H. (2016). Cyanea kuhihewa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T80230488A80230494. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T80230488A80230494.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.
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]
Rønsted, N. and Wood, Kenneth R. (2020). Cyanea kuhihewa: Rediscovering one of Hawai'i's rarest trees. Plants, People, Planet 2020: 1-4.
Rønsted, N., Wood, K., Nyberg, B. and Lorence, D. H. (2020). Cyanea kuhihewa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T80230488A170393959. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T80230488A170393959.en. Accessed on 07 September 2024.
Russell, C. (2004). Species assessment and listing priority assignment form for Cyanea kuhihewa. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office.
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.
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.
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.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kauai-botanists-rediscover-extinct-plant
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