Melicope knudsenii 

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
Plantae	Tracheophyta	Magnoliopsida	Sapindales	Rutaceae

Scientific Name:	Melicope knudsenii
Species Authority:	(Hillebr.) T.G.Hartley & B.C.Stone
Common Name(s): English – Knudsen's Melicope
Synonym(s):	Pelea knudsenii Hillebr.
Taxonomic Source(s):	Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. and Lorence, D.H. 2005 onwards. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website. Available at: http://botany.si.edu/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Critically Endangered C2a, D ver 2.3
Year Published:	1998
Date Assessed:	1998-01-01
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor(s):	World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Previously published Red List assessments:	1998 – Endangered (E) Download assessment

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Known from Olokele Valley and Waimea on Kauai, and Auwahi and Kanaio, on Maui.
Countries occurrence:	Native: United States (Hawaiian Is.)
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Population [top]

Population:	On Kauai a total of four isolated individuals are known. On Maui, at one time locally common, the species has been reduced to 20 or 30 plants in two subpopulations.
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

The habitat has been steadily degraded by grazing and the invasion of introduced plants.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:

The species is listed in the annex of the US Endangered Species Act.

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Bibliography [top]

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1995. Recovery plan for the Kaua'i plant cluster. Portland, Oregon: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.