Hibiscadelphus wilderianus Rock (1911:12)
Maui hau kuahiwi
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Wood et al., 2019:9) or Extinct (WCMC, 1998; Baillie & Butcher, 2012:88; Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1910 (1912 or before?); 1913 (Wood et al., 2019:9)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 27/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).
Distribution
southern slopes of Mount Haleakalā, Maui, Hawaii
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Radlkoffer, L. and Rock, J. F. (1911). New and noteworthy Hawaiian plants. Hawaiian Board of Agriculture and Forestry Botanical Bull 1: 1-15.
Other references:
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Champion, Solomon J. (2020). Biogeography and phylogenetics of the Hawaiian endemic Hibiscadelphus, hau kuahiwi (Malvaceae). MSc thesis, University of Hawai'i.
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POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 16 June 2024]
Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. University of Hawaii 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.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1998). Hibiscadelphus wilderianus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T30397A9536660. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T30397A9536660.en. Downloaded on 18 November 2016.
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.
http://mauinow.com/2019/02/19/scent-of-extinct-maui-mountain-hibiscus-revived-by-science/