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Plant Profile

Slender-stalked Cyrtandra (Cyrtandra filipes)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Gesneriaceae
State: HI
Nature Serve ID: 129055
Lifeform: Shrub
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

C. filipes is rare, but when observed, it is a small shrub with whorled leaves and white, solitary flowers.

Where is Slender-stalked Cyrtandra (Cyrtandra filipes) located in the wild?

Habitat:

This endemic shrub prefers mesic, mountain environments with gulches and streams.

Distribution:

This shrub can be found on the islands of Moloka`i and Maui.

States & Provinces:

Slender-stalked Cyrtandra can be found in Hawaii

Which CPC Partners conserve Slender-stalked Cyrtandra (Cyrtandra filipes)?

Harold L. Lyon Arboretum

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Clarice Mendoza

09/14/2017

Ecological threats include habitat destruction from pigs, rats and deers, as well as direct competition with introduced plant species. The most notable alien plant species is glorybush.

Clarice Mendoza

09/14/2017

It believed that there are 1,000 to 2,000 individual plants existing in this shrub's native range among 8 to 12 sub populations.