Cyanea scabra
Genus: Cyanea section Genuinae subsection Scabrae.
Status: Least concern.
Range: West Maui; mesic valleys, 468-850 m.
Growth form: Shrub, 0.5-1.5 m tall.
First described by Hillebrand, but other than a morphological description, nor he nor Rock has very much to say about this species. Rock only notes that it is very variable and says that he collected it in the valley of Waihee near streambed. Hillebrand (and Rock and Wimmer) segregated the sympatric variety with unarmed corolla lobes as Cyanea holophylla; Lammers (1990) combined these two.
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Rock (1919) and Wimmer (1943) circumscribed Cy. scabra broadly with several varieties. Lammers (1990) segregated these varieties: (variety longissima is Cy. longissima, forma sinuata is Cy. solanacea and variabilis is either Cy. longissima or Cy. glabra)
- Hillebrand, 1888;
- Hillebrand, 1888 (as Cyanea holophylla);
- Rock, 1919 (varieties recircumscribed);
- Rock, 1919 (as Cyanea holophylla);
- Wimmer, 1943 (varieties recircumscribed);
- Wimmer, 1943 (as Cyanea holophylla);
- Wagner et al., 1990.