Cyanea mauiensis (Rock) Lammers

Genus: Cyanea

Range: Maui, mesic to wet forests, 200-731 m.

Growth form: Shrub, 1-3.2 m tall.

This species circumscription used to include Cyanea magnicalyx endemic to West Maui, but Lammers, 1994, segregated the two species based on floral differences.

Sources:

• Hillebrand, 1888 (as Cyanea lobata var. β);
• Hillebrand, 1888 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. β and γ);
• Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea lobata var. hamakuae);
• Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. mauiensis, in part. The Rock #10265 specimen is Cy. magnicalyx);
• Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. lydgatei);
• Degener, 1932 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. lydgatei);
• Degener, 1932 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. mauiensis);
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. mauiensis);
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. lydgatei);
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea lobata var. hamakuae);
• Wagner et al., 1990 (as Cyanea grimesiana var. grimesiana;
• Lammers, 1998;
• Lammers, 2004 (the segregation of Cy. magnicalyx).