Lobelia hillebrandii
Genus: Lobelia sect. Revolutella
Range: Maui, wet forest, 450-1,500 m. (USGS map includes Molokai. Possibly this is L. hillebrandii subsp. paniculata which has been transferred to L. dunbariae.)
Growth form: Subshrub, 0.4-0.8 m tall.
Rock, 1919, says that Hillebrand's Lobelia neriifolia has nothing in common with Gray's specimen of that name and he dubs Hillebrand's species Lobelia hillebrandii. Rock describes it clearly as low and prostrate, the same as Hillebrand's description under the name L. neriifolia. Lammers description in Wagner et al. 1999 instead says "ascending". There are four Lobelia on Maui: L. grayana (== the originally L. neriifolia described by Gray using a binomial that already existed, not Hillebrand's L. neriifolia.)
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Sources:
- Hillebrand, 1888 (as Lobelia neriifolia, note subsp. β is L. dunbariae and subsp. γ is L. monostachya);
- Rock, 1919 (note subsp. paniculata is L. dunbariae and subsp. monostachya is L. monostachya);
- Wimmer, 1953 (note subsp. paniculata is L. dunbariae and subsp. monostachya is L. monostachya);
- Wagner et al., 1990.