Melicope degeneri (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pelea degeneri B.C.Stone
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1993 (Woods, 2011)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Kaua‘i, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Stone, B.C. 1966. Pelea degeneri. Occasional Papers Bernice P. Bishop Museum 23(10): 161.
USFWS (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service). (2001). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants: Review of plant and animal species that are candidates or proposed for listing as endangered or threatened, annual notice of findings on recycled petitions, and annual description of progress on listing actions; proposed rule. Federal Register 66: 54808-54832.
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, 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.
Woods, Kenneth R. (2011). Rediscovery, conservation status and taxonomic assessment of Melicope degeneri (Rutaceae), Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i. Endangered Species Research 14(1): 61-68.
Wood, K. and Kirkpatrick, M. 2014. Rediscovery of Melicope quadrangularis (Rutaceae) and other notable plant records for the island of Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey 115: 29-32.
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