Lobelia yuccoides Hillebr.

Genus: Lobelia section Revolutella.

Range: Kaua'i; O'ahu; Wai'anae Range, dry ridges and canyons and mesic forest, 750-1,200 m.

Growth form: Treelet, 1.5-2 m tall.

This species ...

How to identify: In the Revolutella section with blue flowers and spirally revolute corolla lobes, the lower leaf surface is white tomentose, the leaves are linear and bunched at the apices of stems. Exceedingly close to L. grayana of Haleakalā, the difference being that in L. yuccoides everything is longer and more slender: the leaves (30cm vs 18cm), the inflorescence (80 cm vs. 30 cm) and the flowers themselves (4 cm vs 3 cm).

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Sources:

• Hillebrand, 1888;
• Rock, 1919;
• Wimmer, 1953;
• Wimmer, 1968;
• Wagner et al., 1990.