Delissea sinuata Hillebr.

Genus: Delissea

Extinct.

Range: O'ahu, Wai'anae Range.

Growth form: Subshrub, 0.6-1.2 m tall.

This species from Oahu, first described by Hillebrand in 1888, was circumscribed from that time until Lammers, 2005, to include the population of Delissea on Lana'i. That population has now been segregated as Delissea lanaiensiis. Together, these two species seem closely related to another Macranthae, Delissea fauriei of Moloka'i.

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Sources:

• Hillebrand, 1888 (var. β is D. lanaiensis);
• Rock, 1919 (var. lanaiensis is D. lanaiensis);
• Wimmer, 1943 (var. lanaiensis is D. lanaiensis);
• Wagner et al., 1990 (subsp. lanaiensis is D. lanaiensis);
• Lammers, 2005.