- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
- ›bellflower family
- ›Lobelia subfamily
- ›Delissea
Kauai delissea
Delissea rhytidosperma
Delissea rhytidosperma is a rare species of flowering plant in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae. It is known by the common names Kauaʻi delissea, Kauaʻi leechleaf delissea, and leechleaf delissea. It is endemic to Hawaii where it is known only from the island of Kauaʻi. It is critically endangered or extinct in the wild.
Some populations that were formerly included in the species D. rhytidosperma are now called Delissea kauaiensis. It is a federally listed endangered species.
From the article Delissea rhytidosperma on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Delissea rhytidosperma, a Hawaiian lobelioid, is a shrub which grows up to 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) tall. The leaves have lance-shaped or nearly oval blades up to 19 centimeters long. The tubular flowers have greenish or purplish petals and distinctive hairs next to the anthers. The plant's natural habitat is rocky cliffsides in moist forests dominated by Acacia koa. This habitat has been destroyed and degraded by the action of feral pigs, goats, and mule deer, and by exotic plant species. Germination and establishment are further limited by non-native rodents, snails, and grasses.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Delissea rhytidosperma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 161648.