Cyanea truncata Rock

Punaluu cyanea, haha

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Cyanea truncate [orth. error used by Suckling et al., 2004:49/63]

Conservation Status

Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019) or Possibly extinct in the wild (Wood et al., 2019); "extinct or missing" (Suckling et al., 2004)

Last record: 1994 (Price, 2004; Suckling et al., 2004:49/63); 2002 (USFWS, 2003); 2018 (Wood et al., 2019)

Distribution

Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Bridgens, Rachel. (2022). Genetic-based Conservation Implications for the ex situ Populations of Critically Endangered Hawaiian Plant Species. Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati. [Abstract]

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]

Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.

USFWS. (2003). Hawaiian Islands Plants: Listed and Candidate Species, as Designated under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (Updated 2003). United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, HI.

Wagner, W.L., M.M. Bruegmann, D.R. Herbst, and J.Q.C. Lau. 1999. Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk:1999. Contribution No. 1999-023 to the Hawaii Biological Survey. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers: No. 60, 1999.

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

Werden, Leland K. et al. (2020). Ex situ conservation of threatened plant species in island biodiversity hotspots: A case study from Hawai‘i. Biological Conservation 243: 108435. [Abstract]

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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