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.
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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