Cyanea maritae Lammers & H.Oppenh.

Genus: Cyanea

Range: Maui; Haleakalā, windward wet slopes. USGS Map not available.

Growth form: Shrubs, 2-2.4 m tall

This species discovered by Hank Oppenheimer, Fern Duvall, Renate Gassmann-Duvall and Marita Lewis in January 2000 on windward Haleakalā. It was discovered at the same time as Cyanea duvalliorum which has similarly dissected leaves, but C. duvalliorum has a tall tree-like habit. In his paper, Lammers lays out his difficulty in placing these two new species, finally deciding that they belong with the Scabrae clade.

How to identify:

Images:

Sources:

• Rock, 1919 (as paratype Rock #8797a and Roc #8798 of Cyanea scabra var. variabilis);
• Wagner et al., 1999 (as part of Cy. glabra);
• Lammers, 2004.