Cyanea linearifolia
Genus: Cyanea section Delisseoideae.
Status: Extinct
Range: Kaua'i; wet forest
Growth form: Treelet, 2-2.5 m tall.
There was a moment in 1991 when it was thought that this species, long considered extinct, was thought to have been refound by Ken Wood (Wichman, 1992). But, alas, Lammers (1996) says that this plant was actually a new and different species which he has dubbed Cyanea kuhihewa
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Sources:
- Rock, 1957;
- Wimmer, 1968;
- Wagner et al., 1990;
- Lammers, 1996.