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Cyanea superba superba (Cham.) A.Gray

Superb cyanea, Mt. Kaala cyanea

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Possibly extinct in the wild (Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct in the wild

Last record: 2003 (Wood et al., 2019)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild

 

Distribution

Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Adamski, Daniel J. et al. (2020). Reintroduction approaches and challenges for Cyanea superba (Cham.) A. Gray subsp. superba. Journal for Nature Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125873 [Abstract]

Bruegmann, M. M. and Caraway, V. (2003). Cyanea superba ssp. superba. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2003: e.T34028A9831698. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2003.RLTS.T34028A9831698.en. Downloaded on 18 November 2016.

Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Smith, Donal et al. (2023). Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species. Science 379(6634): eadd2889. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2889

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003. Rare plant database. Unpublished.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region. 1997. Draft recovery plan for Oahu plants. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.

Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.

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., 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

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/4/cyanea-superba-sp

 

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