Melicope nealae (B.C.Stone) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone (1989:121)
Neal's melicope, alani
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Pelea nealae B.C.Stone in O.Degener, Fl. Hawaiiensis 179: [s.p.] (1960); Melicope nealiae; Pelea nealae B.C.Stone; Pelea nealiae O.Deg. & I.Deg.
Conservation Status
Last record: 12 April 1960 (Clark, 2016; Walsh et al., 2020); 1979 (Suckling et al. 2004:51/63; Wood et al., 2019:10; NatureServe, 2024)
Rediscovered in March 2019 (Walsh et al., 2020 [as 2019]; Wood & Walsh, 2022)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hartley, T. G. and Stone, B. C. (1989). Reduction of [i]Pelea[/i] with New Combinations in [i]Melicope[/i] (Rutaceae). Taxon 38(1): 119-123.
Other references:
Clark, M. (2016). Melicope nealae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T97905834A97905972. Downloaded on 17 September 2016.
Fortini, L., Price, J., Jacobi, J., Vorsino, A., Burgett, J., Brinck, K., Amidon, F., Miller, S., Gon II, S., Koob, G. and Paxton, E. (2013). A landscape-based assessment of climate change vulnerability for all native Hawaiian plants. Technical report HCSU-044. Hawaii Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii.
Gon III, S. M. (2008). Revised list of Hawaiian names of plants native and introduced with brief descriptions and notes as to occurrence and medicinal or other values. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 6: 405-442.
Hartley, T. G. (2001). On the Taxonomy and Biogeography of Euodia and Melicope (Rutaceae). Allertonia 8(1): 1-328.
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]
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.
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Stone, B. C. (1969). The genus Pelea A. Gray (Rutaceae: Evodineae). A taxonomic monograph. (Studies in the Hawaiian Rutaceae, 10). Phanerogamarum Monographiae tomus III. J. Cramer, Lehre, West Germany. 180 pp.
Stone, B. C., W. L. Wagner, and D. R. Herbst. (1990). Rutaceae. Pp. 1174-1216 in: Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer, Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai`i. Special publ. Bishop Mus., Honolulu 83:1-1853.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 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.
Walsh, S., Nyberg, B. and Wood, K. (2020). Melicope nealae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T97905834A149821744. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T97905834A149821744.en. Accessed on 03 September 2024.
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. (2012). Possible Extinctions, Rediscoveries, and New Plant Records within the Hawaiian Islands. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011. Edited by Neal L. Evenhuis & Lucius G. Eldredge. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 91-102.
Wood, Kenneth R. (2015). Survey Results for Eight Possibly Extinct Plant Species from Kaua`i, Hawai`i. Prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, FWS Agreement No. F12AC00737. 293 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.
Wood, Kenneth R. and Walsh, Seana K. (2022). Notes on the Hawaiian Flora: Kaua‘i Rediscoveries and Range Extensions. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2021. Edited by Neal L. Evenhuis, N.L. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 142: 27-34.