Cyanea minutiflora
Genus: Cyanea section Delisseoideae subsection coriaceae.
Status: Extinct. Known only from type collected by Forbes in 1916.
Range: Kaua'i. USGS map not available.
Growth form: Unknown.
One of the four species belonging to the coriaceae subsection of the Delisseoideae, the sisters being C. coriaceae, C. pseudofauriei and C. hardyi. When Lammers (2004) sank Cyanea fauriei into Cyanea coriacea, he only included the type species and var. degeneriana. The population that had been called var. gratiosa from central and southern Kaua'i became Cyanea pseudofauriei and the population from Ka Loko reservoir on the northeast side of the island became Cyanea minutiflora.
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