Phyllostegia helleri Sherff
Mt. Kahili phyllostegia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Phyllostegia helleri helleri
Conservation Status
Possibly extinct in the wild (Wood et al., 2019:11)
Last record: 1916
Rediscovered in 2004
Last wild record: 2018 (Wood et al., 2019:11)
Distribution
Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
USFWS (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service). (2001). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants: Review of plant and animal species that are candidates or proposed for listing as endangered or threatened, annual notice of findings on recycled petitions, and annual description of progress on listing actions; proposed rule. Federal Register 66: 54808-54832.
Wagner, W. L. (1999). Hawaiian Phyllostegia. Novon 9(2): 265-283.
Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. (1990). Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai‘i. 2vols. University of Hawai‘i Press & Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.
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. (2006). New Plant Records and Rediscoveries within the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 15-19.
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://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FWS-R1-ES-2015-0125-0001