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Plant Profile

(Labordia triflora)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Loganiaceae
State: HI
Nature Serve ID: 149379
Lifeform: Shrub, Tree
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

This member of the pinkroot family family is a tree-like shrub with long stems and tube-like greenish flowers that grow either solitary or in a cluster of three.

Where is (Labordia triflora) located in the wild?

Habitat:

This perennial shrub species is found in habitats featuring mixed lowland mesic forest.

Distribution:

It is found in moist, mesic forests of the east Moloka`i, but only ten plants are known from a single subpopulation, growing in a gulch.

States & Provinces:

can be found in Hawaii

Which CPC Partners conserve (Labordia triflora)?

Harold L. Lyon Arboretum

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Clarice Mendoza

09/15/2017

Threats to its survival include introduced invasive plants and predation by deer, feral pigs, and goats.

Nellie Sugii

01/01/2010

Habitat degradation and/or destruction by pigs and goats, rats that eat seeds, and competition with alien plant species threaten this species' survival.

Nellie Sugii

01/01/2010

There are only 10 individuals left of this taxon.