Tetramolopium consanguineum kauense Lowrey

Blood tetramolopium

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Tetramolopium consanguineum ssp. leptophyllum var. kauense

Conservation Status

Missing; "extinct or missing" (Suckling et al., 2004:49/63)

Last record: 1980 (Price, 2004; Suckling et al. 2004:49/63)

"Tetramolopium consanguineum ssp. leptophyllum var. kauense is endemic to the Ka'u district on the island of Hawaii. It has not been seen since its discovery in 1980. The taxon to which it belongs, however, was ths subject of Smithsonian Institution Endangered Species Act listing petitions in 1975 and 1978."

(Suckling et al., 2004:49/63)

Distribution

Ka'u district, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Price, J. 2004. Letter to Kieran Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity, from Johnathan Price, Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany, April 30, 2004.

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

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.

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