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Lau-lihilihi (Schiedea stellarioides)

  • Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
  • Legal Status: Federally Endangered
  • Family: Caryophyllaceae
  • State: HI
  • Nature Serve ID: 131523
  • Lifeform: Subshrub, Shrub
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

slightly erect to prostrate shrub

Where is Lau-lihilihi (Schiedea stellarioides) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Lau-lihilihi can be found in Hawaii

Which CPC Partners conserve Lau-lihilihi (Schiedea stellarioides)?

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Conservation Actions

  • 01/01/2010

habitat degradation by feral ungulates (pigs and goats) direct destruction of plants by goats competition with the alien plants molasses grass and prickly Florida blackberry risk of extinction of the one remaining population from naturally occurr

  • 01/01/2010

possibly extinct 1 population 1 population of approximately 500 to 1,000 individuals

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Nomenclature
Taxon Schiedea stellarioides
Authority H. Mann
Family Caryophyllaceae
CPC Number 3862
ITIS 20224
USDA SCST3
Duration Perennial
Common Names Lau-lihilihi | Ma'oli'oli
Associated Scientific Names Schiedea stellarioides | Schiedea stellarioides var. brevifolia | Schiedea stellarioides var. hillebrandii | Schiedea stellarioides var. implexoides | Schiedea stellarioides var. longifolia
Distribution
State Rank
State State Rank
Hawaii S1
Ecological Relationships

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