Cyanea lobata H. Mann

Genus: Cyanea section Genuinae subsection Scabrae.

Status: Endangered. Not collected for nearly a hundred years from the time of Hillebrand until its rediscovery by Hobdy on West Maui in 1982. Only one plant was ever found on Lāna'i which went by the name C. baldwinii.

Range: West Maui; mesic valleys; 550-900m. A single specimen found on Lāna'i

Growth form: Treelet, 1.3-2.3 m tall.

Image from Degener, 1936

This species, like the plants found in subsection Grimesianae has all five of the anthers hairy.

Description: A human height treelet, 1.3 to 2.3 m high, sparingly branched from base. The stem is either smooth or sparsely muricate. Leaves are oblong to obovate, 30 to 50 cm long by 10 to 15 cm wide, margin irregularly toothed (lobed), 12 to 25 per side, teeth deltate, up to 1.5 cm long, apex acuminate, base narrowing often with unequal lobes, upper surface glabrate, lower surface scabrous to muricate on veins, petiole 7 to 22 cm long.

Sources:

• Mann, 1868;
• Hillebrand, 1888;
• Rock, 1919;
• Forbes & Munro, 1920 (as Cyanea baldwinii);
• Degener, 1936 (as Cyanea baldwinii);
• Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea baldwinii);
• Wimmer, 1943;
• Wagner et al., 1990.