Plateau Delissea (Cyanea rivularis)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Campanulaceae
State: HI
Nature Serve ID: 140709
Lifeform: Shrub, Tree
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Plateau Delissea (Cyanea rivularis) located in the wild?

Habitat:

found on steep slopes in 'ohi'a-'olapa montane wet or mesic forest near streams

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Plateau Delissea can be found in Hawaii

Which CPC Partners conserve Plateau Delissea (Cyanea rivularis)?

National Tropical Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

Harold L. Lyon Arboretum

Not Sponsored

Assigned 07/24/23

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Conservation Actions

01/01/2010

competition with the encroaching alien plant prickly Florida blackberry habitat destruction by feral pigs reduced reproductive vigor and/or a risk of extinction from naturally occurring events due to the small number of remaining individuals

01/01/2010

possibly extinct known only from the upper Hanakoa Valley stream area or northwestern Kauai. One population of 15 to 20 plants on State land