Cyanea platyphylla (A. Gray) Hillebr.

Genus: Cyanea section Genuinae subsection Hawaiiensis

Range: Hawaii, wet forests, 120-915 m. Where does Rock 8796a (C. nolimetangere) from Maui belong?

Growth form: Shrub, 1-3 m tall.

Carlquist suspected that various different species including C. platyphylla, C. nolimetangere, C. rollandioides and C. fernaldii represented different developmental stages of a single species. Lammers agreed, though he differed in some of the details, and merged them all into C. platyphylla in 1990.

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Sources:

• Gray, 1861 (as Delissea platyphylla);
• Mann, 1868 (as Delissea platyphylla);
• Hillebrand, 1888;
• Rock, 1917 (as Cyanea noli-me-tangere);
• Rock, 1917 (as Cyanea fernaldii);
• Rock, 1918 (as Cyanea rollandioides);
• Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea nolimetangere);
• Rock, 1919;
• Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea fernaldii);
• Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea rollandioides);
• Wimmer, 1943;
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea nolimetangere);
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea rollandioides);
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea fernaldii);
• Wimmer, 1968 (as Cyanea bryanii);
• Wimmer, 1968 (as Cyanea pulchra);
• Wimmer, 1968 (as Cyanea crispohirta);
• Wagner et al., 1990.