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).

Distribution

Hawai`i, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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/3995/delissea-argutidentata

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