Delissea rhytidosperma H.Mann

Kauai delissea

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Delissea kealiae Wawra

Conservation Status

Possibly extinct in the wild (Wood et al., 2019) or Extinct in the wild

Last record: 1 January 2002; 2014 (Wood et al., 2019)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in Wild)

Distribution

Kauaʻi, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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

USFWS. 2008. Delissea rhytidosperma (No common name). 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Island Fish and Wildlife Office, Honolulu.

Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer S. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii.

Walsh, S. 2015. Delissea rhytidosperma. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T79862837A79862844. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T79862837A79862844.en. Downloaded on 28 December 2015.

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, K. R. (2015). Delissea rhytidosperma H. Mann (Campanulaceae) and Phyllostegia kahiliensis H. St. John (Lamiaceae) possibly extinct on Kaua‘i, Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 116(15): 31-33.

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/3393/delissea-rhytidosperma

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