Kadua haupuensis Lorence & W.L.Wagner
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Humphreys et al., 2019) or Possibly extinct in the wild (Wood et al., 2019:9)
Last record: 1998 (Wood et al., 2019:9)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild)
Distribution
Mt. Haupu, Kaua'i (southern), Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lorence, D. H., Wagner, W. L. and Laidlaw, W. G. (2010). Kadua haupuensis (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae), a new endemic species from Kaua`i, Hawaiian Islands. Brittonia 62: 137-144.
Other references:
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]
Laidlaw, W. G. and Lorence, D. H. (2015). Gender and breeding system of Kadua haupuensis (Rubiaceae). Research Gate, open access publication, posted 23 July 2015.: 1-27.
Lorence, D. H. and Kishida, W. (2015). Kadua haupuensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T80233735A80233748. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T80233735A80233748.en. Downloaded on 28 December 2015.
Wagner, W., Herbst, D. & Sohmer, S. (1990). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'I 1-2: 1-1853. University of Hawaii Press.
Wood, Kenneth R. (2012). Possible Extinctions, Rediscoveries, and New Plant Records within the Hawaiian Islands. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011. Edited by Neal L. Evenhuis & Lucius G. Eldredge. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 91-102.
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.
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