Cyanea eleeleensis (H.St.John) Lammers

Genus: Cyanea clade Hirtellae.

Status: Endangered. Federal Threatened & Endangered species; PEPP protected.

Etymology: species was discovered in the Wainiha Valley in gulch shaded by Pali 'Ele'ele.

Range: Kaua'i, Wainiha valley, wet forest, 213 m.

Growth form: Shrub, 1.8 m tall.

This species is one of the two that Lammers conceded to Harold St. John after St. John created a massive number of synonyms in 1987 publishing in Phytologia. The other is Cyanea kolekoleensis. Both are members of the Hirtellae clade.

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Sources:

• H. St.John, 1987 (as Delissea eleeleensis);
• Lammers, 1992.