Sceptridium subbifoliatum (Brack.) Lyon (1905:458)

Makou

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Botrychium subbifoliatum Brack.; U.S. Expl. Exped., Filic. 16: 317, t. 44, f. 2 (1854)

The species is here treated under Sceptridium following (Kartesz, 1999; Hassler, 2004-2023).

Conservation Status

Missing (Wood et al., 2019; NatureServe, 2023) or Extinct (POWO, 2023)

Last record: 1935 (NatureServe, 2023); 1940 (Wood et al., 2019)

Although stated to be extinct by (POWO, 2023), it is better treated as missing:

"It seems that there is still some chance that it is extant, as there remains much poorly searched potential habitat."

(NatureServe, 2023)

Distribution

Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui & Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Hassler, Michael. (2004-2023). World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Version 17.2; last update Oct. 20th, 2023. Available at: https://www.worldplants.de/ferns/ [Accessed 28 October 2023]

Hillebrand, W. F. (1888). Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: a description of their phanerogams and vascular cryptogams. Facsimile ed., 1981. Lubrecht & Cramer, Monticello, NY. 673 pp.

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.

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 Meacham, C. A. Synthesis of the North American flora [computer program]. Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden: Chapel Hill, NC.

NatureServe. (2023). Botrychium subbifoliatum, Makou. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available https://explorer.natureserve.org/. [Accessed: 28 October 2023).

Palmer, Daniel D. (2003). Hawai'i's ferns and fern allies (No. 2002-2010). University of Hawaii Press.

POWO. (2023). Botrychium subbifoliatum Brack. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 28 October 2023]

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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