Kokia cookei

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	MALVALES	MALVACEAE

Scientific Name:

Kokia cookei

Species Authority:

O. Deg.

Common Name/s:

English

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Cooke's Kokio, Molokai Koki`o

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct in the Wild ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Formerly known from Mahana in western Molokai. The genus consists of four species, all endemic to Hawaii and either Extinct or Critically Endangered.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: United States (Hawaiian Is.)
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Population [top]

Population:	When first discovered in the 1860s, only three small trees were found. By 1918 all the specimens in the wild had died. Some years after, the only known cultivated tree died without producing viable offspring and the species was thought extinct.

Population:

When first discovered in the 1860s, only three small trees were found. By 1918 all the specimens in the wild had died. Some years after, the only known cultivated tree died without producing viable offspring and the species was thought extinct.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Originally in relictual dryland forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The former site was central to a sheep run and the population was directly affected by browsing and trampling domestic and feral stock.

Major Threat(s):

The former site was central to a sheep run and the population was directly affected by browsing and trampling domestic and feral stock.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Living material has been obtained from the branch of a cultivated specimen discovered in 1970, and grafted onto K. kauaiensis. The species is listed in the annex of the US Endangered Species Act.

Conservation Actions:

Living material has been obtained from the branch of a cultivated specimen discovered in 1970, and grafted onto K. kauaiensis. The species is listed in the annex of the US Endangered Species Act.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Kokia cookei. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 June 2013.
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