Tetramolopium consanguineum kauense Lowrey (1986:262)

Blood tetramolopium

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

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

Conservation Status

Missing (Suckling et al., 2004:49/63 [as "extinct or missing"]; NatureServe, 2026) or Invalid (synonym of T. c. leptophyllum) (POWO, 2026)

Last record: 1980 (Price, 2004 fide 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 & Habitat

Ka'u district, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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.

NatureServe. (2026). Tetramolopium consanguineum var. kauense: Blood Tetramolopium. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 15 September 2026]

POWO. (2026). Tetramolopium consanguineum var. kauense Lowrey. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 15 September 2026]

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

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.). (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

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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