Delissea niihauensis H.St.John (1959:177)

Niihau delissea

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Delissea undulata subsp. niihauensis (H.St.John) Lammers in Syst. Bot. 13: 505 (1988)

Conservation Status

Missing (Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct (Wagner et al., 1999:27; Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1867 (Wood et al., 2019); 1870 (Keir, 2016); 1873 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 36/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).

Distribution

Niihau, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

St. John, H. (1959). Botanical novelties on the island of Niihau, Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian plant studies 25. Pacific Sci. 13: 156-190.

Other references:

Albani Rocchetti, Giulia, Carta, Angelino, Mondoni, Andrea, Godefroid, Sandrine, Davis, Charles C., Caneva, Giulia, Albrecht, Matthew A., Alvarado, Karla, Bijmoer, Roxali, Borosova, Renata, Bräuchler, Christian, Breman, Elinor, Briggs, Marie, Buord, Stephane, Cave, Lynette H., Da Silva, Nílber Gonçalves, Davey, Alexandra H., Davies, Rachael M., Dickie, John B., Fabillo, Melodina, Fleischmann, Andreas, Franks, Andrew, Hall, Geoffrey, Kantvilas, Gintaras, Klak, Cornelia, Liu, Udayangani, Medina, Leopoldo, Reinhammar, Lars Gunnar, Sebola, Ramagwai J., Schönberger, Ines, Sweeney, Patrick, Voglmayr, Hermann, White, Adam, Wieringa, Jan J., Zippel, Elke Zippel and Abeli, Thomas. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.

Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]

CPC. (1992). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.

Fortini, L., Price, J., Jacobi, J., Vorsino, A., Burgett, J., Brinck, K., Amidon, F., Miller, S., Gon II, S., Koob, G. and Paxton, E. (2013). A landscape-based assessment of climate change vulnerability for all native Hawaiian plants. Technical report HCSU-044. Hawaii Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii.

Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.

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]

Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Keir, M. (2016). Delissea niihauensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T34039A79862750. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T34039A79862750.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.

Lammers, T. G. (1990). Campanulaceae, pp. 420-489. In: Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer, Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai`i. Special Publ. Bishop Mus., Honolulu 83: 1-1853.

Lammers, T. G. (2005). Revision of Delissea (Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae). Systematic Botany Monographs 73: 1-75.

POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 26 August 2024]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1996). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; endangered status for the plant Delissea undulata. Federal Register 61(198): 53124-53130.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1996). Recovery plan for the Big Island plant cluster. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.

Wagner, Warren L., Bruegmann, Marie M., Herbst, Derral M. and Lau, Joel Q. C. (1999a). Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk: 1999. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 60: 1-58.

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. (1999b). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

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.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (2015). Delissea niihauensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T34039A79856414. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015.RLTS.T34039A79856414.en. Downloaded on 28 December 2015.

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