Stenogyne kaalae sherffii (O.Deg.) W.L.Wagner & S.G.Weller (1999:449)
Kaala stenogyne
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Stenogyne sherffii O.Deg. in Brittonia 5: 58 (1943)
Conservation Status
Possibly Extinct in the Wild (Wood et al., 2019:13) or Extinct in the Wild (PEPP, 2024; Wagner et al., 2026:41)
Last record: 1998 (Wood et al., 2019:13)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild)
Distribution & Habitat
Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Keir, M. (2021). Stenogyne kaalae subsp. sherffii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T153606006A153606063. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T153606006A153606063.en. Accessed on 05 July 2022.
NatureServe. (2026). Stenogyne kaalae ssp. sherffii: Kaala Stenogyne. 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]
PEPP. (2024). Plant Extinction Prevention Program species list, January 2024. Available at: http://www.pepphi.org/pep-species-list.html [Accessed 10 February 2025]
POWO. (2026). 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]
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2015). Endangered Status for 49 Species From the Hawaiian Islands. Federal Register 80(189): 58820-58909.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2016). Endangered Status for 49 Species From the Hawaiian Islands. Final rule. Federal Register 81(190): 67786-67860.
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, Warren L., Khan, Nancy R., Lorence, David H., Flynn, Timothy W. and Wood, Kenneth R. (2026). Checklist of native and naturalized Hawaiian vascular plants. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 123: i-xii + 1-96, 3 tables. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043
Wagner, Warren L. and Weller, S. G. (1999). Rediscovery and assessment of Stenogyne sherffii Degener (Lamiaceae). Novon 9(3): 448-449.
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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