Eragrostis mauiensis Hitchc. (1922:129)
Maui lovegrass
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Eragrostis coerulea Hildebr. ex Jedwabn. in Bot. Arch. 5: 213 (1924)
Conservation Status
Missing (Wood et al., 2019:8) or Extinct (Wagner et al., 1999:55; Humphreys et al., 2019; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1800's (NatureServe, 2024); 1838 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024); pre-1872 (Wood et al., 2019:8)
Distribution
Lanai & Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hitchcock, A. S. (1922). The grasses of Hawaii. Mem. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 8: 101-230.
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Wagner, W., Herbst, D. & 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.