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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Kaua´i Koki´o, Kaua'i Koki'o, Kauai Koki'o, Kauai Treecotton, Koki`o
Description
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Physical Description
Habit: Tree , Shrub
Habitat
Ecology: Rainforest.[1]
Biology
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Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Malvales
()
- Family:
Noctuoidea
()
- Subfamily:
Malvoideae
()
- Tribe:
Gossypieae
()
- Genus:
Kokia
()
- Specific epithet:
kauaiensis
- (Rock) O. Deg. & Duvel
- Botanical name: - Kokia kauaiensis (Rock) O. Deg. & Duvel
- Specific epithet:
kauaiensis
- (Rock) O. Deg. & Duvel
- Genus:
Kokia
(
- Tribe:
Gossypieae
(
- Subfamily:
Malvoideae
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Malvales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
. Latest taxonomic
scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Place of publication
: Degener, Fl.
Hawaii fam. 221. 1934
Name verified on 18-Nov-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Mar-2000
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Kokia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
K. cookei (Cooke´s Koki´o) · K. drynarioides (Hawaiian Tree Cotton) · K. kauaiensis (Kaua´i Koki´o) · K. lanceolata (Wailupe Valley Treecotton) · K. rockii
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Further Reading
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- Ellshoff, Z.E. 1991. The Rarest Hawaiian Members of the Hibiscus Family. National Tropical Botanical Garden: The Bulletin. 21, 3: 7-12.
- Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- Sakai, A.K.; Wagner, W.L.; Ferguson, D.M.; Herbst, D.R. 1995. Origins of Dioecy in the Hawaiian Flora. Ecology. 76, 8: 2517-2529.
- St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
- St. John, H. 1981. Rare endemic plants of the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu, HI: Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. p.74.
- TenBruggencate, Jan. 1985 Sunday, February 24. Kokia trees: rare beautiful, fighting for survival. The Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser; Honolulu, HI. A-14.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1996. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; determination of endangered or threatened status for nineteen plant species from the island of Kauai, Hawaii. U.S. Federal Register 61(198): 53070-53089.
- USFWS. (2001). Unpublished data. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817. Accessed: 2001.
- USFWS. 1976. Proposed Endangered Status for 1700 U.S. Plants. Federal Register. 41: 24523-24572.
- USFWS. 1996. Determination of endangered or threatened status for nineteen plant species from the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Federal Register. 61, 198: 53070-53089.
- USFWS. 2002. Revised Determinations of Prudency and Proposed Designations of Critical Habitat for Plant Species from the Islands of Kauai and Niihau, Hawaii. Federal Register. 67, 18: 3940-4098.
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants - on-line resource. (US Fish & Wildl List)
- Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
- Wagner, W. L. et al. 1999. Hawaiian vascular plants at risk:1999. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 60:41.
- Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.
- Wagner, W.L.; Bruegmann, M.M.; Herbst, D.R; Lau, J.Q.C. 1999. Hawaiian Vascular Plants at Risk: 1999. Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press Honolulu.
- Wood, K.R.; LeGrande, M. 2002. Biological Inventory of Upper Pohakuao Valley North and South Falls Region, Na Pali Coast State Park, Kaua'i, Hawai'i, with information concerning the distribution and abundance of Flueggea neowawraea (Euphorbiaceae) and Oceanodroma castro (Hydrobatidae). Special Report Prepared for the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of State Parks. p.21.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 28, 2008)
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2647918
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-21977
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13744232
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:561051-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 105638
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 21977
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 561051-1
- IUCN ID: 30934
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDMAL0L030
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q1XR
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: KOKA
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 45058
Footnotes
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
