Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. (1933:116)
`Ala, `Ala Wai Nui, alaala wai nui, Waikamoi peperomia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Peperomia kulensis Yunck. in Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 112: 88 (1933)
Conservation Status
Missing (Wood, 2012:96; Wood et al., 2019:11; PEPP, 2024) or Extinct (Lang, 2016 [as 'apparently extinct']; Humphreys et al., 2019; POWO, 2024) or Extinct in the Wild (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)
Last record: c.2000 (global) (Wood et al., 2019:11); 2001 (wild) (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); before 2007 (global)
Only hybrids have been found since 2007.
Distribution
Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Yuncker, T. G. (1933). Revision of the Hawaiian species of Peperomia. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Bulletin 112: 1-131.
Other references:
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2023). Uitgestorven. Op plantenjacht rond de wereld: 1-511. Sterck & De Vreese.
Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. and Govaerts, Rafaël. (2024). Plant extinction in the Anthropocene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boae045 [Appendix S1]
Evenhuis, N. L. and Eldredge, L. G. (eds.). (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.
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]
Kartesz, J. T. (1994(. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Lang, Alexander. (2016, 19 November). Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions (blog). Available at: http://deadasthedodo.com/2016/11/19/peperomia-subpetiolata-yunck/ [Accessed on 6 January 2024]
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. (2024). Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 1 January 2024]
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (2012). Listing 38 Species on Molokai, Lanai, and Maui as Endangered and Designating Critical Habitat on Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Kahoolawe for 135 Species. Federal Register 77(112): 34464-34775.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2016). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; designation and nondesignation of critical habitat on Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Kahoolawe for 135 species; final rule. Federal Register 81(61): 17789-18110.
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., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer. (1990). Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Univ. Hawaii Press and Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1853 pp.
Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer. (1999). Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Revised edition. Volumes 1 and 2. Univ. Hawaii Press and Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1919 pp.
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. (2001). Summary Report of Research Conducted in the Waikamoi Region of the east Maui Watershed. Prepared for the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii (tNCH). Biological Report, National tropical Botanical Garden (NtBG), Kalaheo, Hawai‘i. 21 pp. Available from tNCH.
Wood, Kenneth R. (2009). Notes on Peperomia subpetiolata. Biological Report, National tropical Botanical Garden (NtBG), Kalaheo, HI. 6 pp. Available from NtBG
Wood, Kenneth R. (2012). Posible Extinctions, Rediscovereies, 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.