Overview
Distribution
National Distribution
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
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Global Range: Hawaiian Islands, on Lanai, and in scattered locales on Molokai and Maui.
Molokai (scattered), Lanai, Maui (scattered). I have seen this species in only one area on Lanai.
Occurs in dry areas. (J. Lau, 2003)
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Physical Description
Type Information
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified by specimen annotations only
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): Wilkes Explor. Exped.
Locality: West Maui., Maui, Hawaii, United States, Hawaiian Archipelago, Pacific Islands
- Lectotype: Gray, A. 1861. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 5: 130.
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Ecology
Habitat
Comments: Scattered in open areas and margins of lava flows, primarily coastal, in grassland and alien shrubland, 0-400 meters (Wagner et al. 1990).
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Conservation
Conservation Status
National NatureServe Conservation Status
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N1 - Critically Imperiled
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NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Reasons: Occurring on three Hawaiian Islands at low elevations near the coast in grassland or alien shrubland.
Molokai (scattered), Lanai, Maui (scattered). I have seen this species in only one area on Lanai.
Occurs in dry areas. (J. Lau, 2003)
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