Cyanea kuhihewa Lammers, 1996

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: 2003

Rediscovered in December 2017 (Wood et al., 2019:1)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild)

Distribution

upper Limahuli Valley, Kaua'i, Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Lammers, T.G. 1996. A new linear-leaved Cyanea (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) from Kaua`i, and the discovery of Cyanea linearifolia. Brittonia 48: 237-240.

Other references:

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]

Lorence, D. H. (2016). Cyanea kuhihewa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T80230488A80230494. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T80230488A80230494.en. Downloaded on 17 November 2016.

Rønsted, N. and Wood, Kenneth R. (2020). Cyanea kuhihewa: Rediscovering one of Hawai'i's rarest trees. Plants, People, Planet. 2020: 1-4.

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.

WCSP (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/

Wood, Kenneth R. (2007). New plant records, rediscoveries, range extensions, and possible extinctions within the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 96: 13-17.

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.

http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20180410.pdf

http://www.pepphi.org/uploads/2/5/4/7/25478598/pep_list_20150420.pdf

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kauai-botanists-rediscover-extinct-plant

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2701/cyanea-kuhihewa

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