Phyllostegia brevidens A.Gray
Mauna Kea phyllostegia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Possibly Extinct in the Wild (Wood et al., 2019:11) or Extinct in the Wild (PEPP, 2024)
Last record: mid-to-late 1800's (Wagner, 1999:267)
Rediscovered on: 26 February 1981 (specimen); 1999 or before (recognition) (both Wagner, 1999:267)
Last record: 2016 (Wood et al., 2019:11)
Distribution & Habitat
Hawai'i & Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
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]
PEPP. (2024). Plant Extinction Prevention Program species list, January 2024. Available at: http://www.pepphi.org/pep-species-list.html [Accessed 10 February 2025]
Wagner, Warren L. (1999). Nomenclator and Review of Hawaiian Phyllostegia (Lamiaceae). Novon 9: 265-279.
Wagner, Warren L., Bruegmann, Marie M., Herbst, Derral M. and Lau, Joel Q. C. (1999). Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk: 1999. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 60: 1-58.
Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., Khan, N. and Flynn, T. (2012). Hawaiian vascular plant updates: a supplement to the manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i and Hawai'i's ferns and fern allies, version 1.3 [12 April 2012]. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA.
Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. (1990). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'I 1-2: 1-1853. University of Hawaii Press.
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.
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/wildlife/files/2013/09/Fact-Sheet-Phyllostegia-brevidens.pdf