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)
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
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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 Unpublished.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.
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