Asplenium leucostegioides Baker (1891:302)

Necklace island-spleenwort

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Diellia leucostegioides (Baker) W.H.Wagner in Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 20: 248 (1995)

Conservation Status

Missing (Wood et al., 2019; NatureServe, 2024) or Extinct (Wagner et al., 1999:56; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024; POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1879 (Wood et al., 2019); 1880's (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2024)

Distribution

Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Baker, J. G. (1891). A Summary of the new Ferns which have been discovered or described since 1874. Annals of Botany (Oxford) 5(3): 301-332. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a090641

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]

Hassler, Michael. (2004-2023). World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Version 17.2; last update Oct. 18th, 2023. Available at: https://www.worldplants.de/ferns/ [Accessed 21 October 2023]

Kartesz, J. T. (1999). A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.

NatureServe. (2024). NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed 21 May 2024]

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 18 May 2024]

Roskov Y. et al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Wagner, Warren H. Jnr. (1953). An Asplenium prototype of the genus Diellia. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 80(1): 76-94. https://doi.org/10.2307/2482236

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.

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.

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