Melicope balloui (Rock) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone (1989:121)
Rock pelea, Ballou's melicope, alani
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Pelea balloui Rock in Indig. Trees Haw. Isl.: 228 (1913); Pelea mannii Hillebr. in Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 66 (1888); Euodia mannii (Hillebr.) Drake in Ill. Fl. Ins. Pacif.: 132 (1890); Pelea ukuleleensis H.St.John in Lloydia 7: 267 (1944)
Conservation Status
Missing (Wood et al., 2019:10; Keir, 2020) or Extinct (Wagner et al., 1999:47; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022) or Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019)
Last record: 1927 (Wood et al., 2019:10; Keir, 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rock, J. F. (1913). The indigenous trees of the Hawaiian Islands. Publ. privately, Honolulu. 512 pp. (Rep., with introduction by S. Carlquist and addendum by D.R. Herbst, 1974, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, VT. 548 pp.).
Other references:
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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]
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Keir, M. (2020). Melicope balloui. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T33661A83802382. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T33661A83802382.en. Accessed on 03 September 2024.
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Stone, B. C. (1963). Studies in the Hawaiian Rutaceae, IV. New and critical species of Pelea A. Gray. Pac. Sci. 17(O4):407-420.
Stone, B. C. (1969). The genus Pelea A. Gray (Rutaceae: Evodiinae). A taxonomic monograph (studies in the Hawaiian Rutaceae, 10). Phanerogamarum monographiae tomus III. J. Cramer, Lehre, West Germany, 180 pp.
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, Warren L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. (1990). Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. Univ. Hawaii Press and Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 1853 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., 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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