Cyanea superba regina (Wawra) Lammers (1988:504)

Superb cyanea

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Delissea regina Wawra in Flora 56: 9 (1873); Cyanea superba var. regina (Wawra) Hillebr. in Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 261 (1888); Cyanea regina (Wawra) Rock in Monogr. Stud. Haw. Lobelioid.: 159 (1919)

Conservation Status

Missing (Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct (WCMC, 1998; Wagner et al., 1999:26; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1932 (Wood et al., 2019; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); 1960 (WCMC, 1998)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Koolau Mountains (southern), Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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]

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

Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.

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]

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.

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.

WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1998). Cyanea superba ssp. regina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T33588A9789170. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T33588A9789170.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.

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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