Delissea argutidentata (E.Wimm.) H.St.John

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in the Wild

Last wild record: 2002 (Wood et al., 2019)

Rediscovered in the wild in March 2021 (see 'Media' below)

30 saplings have been outplanted on Kamehameha Schools land in the hopes of establishing a larger wild population than the single wild plant currently known to exist (discovered in early March 2021). Still considered Extinct in the Wild by (Wagner et al., 2026:26).

Distribution & Habitat

Hawai`i, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFQgSXCtHg

References

Fosberg, F. R. and Herbst, Derral R. (1975). Rare and endangered species of Hawaiian vascular plants. Allertonia 1(1): 1-72 [15]. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23189952

Wagner, Warren L., Khan, Nancy R., Lorence, David H., Flynn, Timothy W. and Wood, Kenneth R. (2026). Checklist of native and naturalized Hawaiian vascular plants. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 123: i-xii + 1-96, 3 tables. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043

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

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