Cyanea comata
Genus: Cyanea sect. Delisseoideae.
Range: Maui, Haleakalā 915-1220 m.
Growth form: Treelet, 1.6-2.6 m tall. Described by Hillebrand as having a few ascending distantly foliose branches.
Image of lectotype in Gray Herbarium (JSTOR).
Status: Extinct; only ever collected by Hillebrand. Rock, who never saw the plant, says that he suspects its native range to have been the southern slope of Haleakalā which had, by the time of his stay on Hawai'i, been given over to pasture and Eucalypts. Other species from the same area have also gone extinct, Cy. arborea.
This name comata possibly means "leafy", referring to the foliose ends of the branches.
Description: Like some others in the Delisseoideae section, C. comata is a human-sized, few branched shrub with the leaves clustered at the stem tips.
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