Hesperochloa molokaiensis (Soreng, P.M.Peterson & Catalán) P.M.Peterson, Romasch. & Soreng (2025:212)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Festuca molokaiensis Soreng, P.M.Peterson & Catalán in J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3: 54 (2009)
Conservation Status
Missing (Wood et al., 2019:8; PEPP, 2024) or Extinct (Wagner et al., 2026:73)
Last record: 2009 (Wood et al., 2019:8)
Distribution & Habitat
Molokai, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Govaerts, R. H. A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families database update import Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Oppenheimer, H. (2011). New Hawaiian plant records for 2009. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 220: 5-10.
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 5 September 2026]
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
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.