Tetraplasandra
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Tetraplasandra is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the ivy
family, Araliaceae
. It comprises seven species, all of which are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the ivy
Ivy
Ivy, plural ivies is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.-Description:On level ground they...
family, Araliaceae
Araliaceae
Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...
. It comprises seven species, all of which are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll...
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Species
- Tetraplasandra flynniiTetraplasandra flynniiTetraplasandra flynnii is a rare species of tree in the ivy family known by the common name ohe ohe. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Kauai. It is threatened by feral goats and non-native plant species in its habitat...
Lowry & K.R.Wood - Tetraplasandra gymnocarpaTetraplasandra gymnocarpaTetraplasandra gymnocarpa, commonly known as the Koolau Tetraplasandra, is a species of flowering plant in the ivy family, Araliaceae, that is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It is threatened by habitat loss.-External links:...
(Hillebr.William HillebrandWilliam Hillebrand was a German physician. He traveled the world, including over 20 years in the Hawaiian islands. In 1850, Hillebrand lived at what is now Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu. He also became known as a botanist.-Life and career:...
) Sherff (OahuOahuOahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
) - Tetraplasandra hawaiensis A.GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
– Oheohe (island of HawaiiHawaii (island)The Island of Hawaii, also called the Big Island or Hawaii Island , is a volcanic island in the North Pacific Ocean...
, MauiMauiThe island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest of Maui County's four islands, bigger than Lānai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai. In 2010, Maui had a population of 144,444,...
, MolokaiMolokaiMolokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...
, LānaiLanaiLānai or Lanai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The only town is Lānai City, a small settlement....
) - Tetraplasandra kavaiensis (H.MannHorace Mann Jr.-Biography:Horace Mann Jr. was born in Boston on February 25, 1844. He was the son of education reformer Horace Mann. While attending the Lawrence Scientific School he took lessons in zoology with Louis Agassiz and in botany with Asa Gray...
) Sherff (=T. turbans) - Tetraplasandra oahuensis (A.Gray) HarmsHermann HarmsHermann August Theodor Harms was a German taxonomist and botanist. In 1938 he revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes, dividing it into three subgenera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes....
(=T. waianensis) – Ohe mauka - Tetraplasandra waialealae RockJoseph RockJoseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.-Life:He was born in Vienna, Austria, but emigrated to the United States in 1905 and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he eventually became an authority on the flora there...
(KauaiKauaiKauai or Kauai, known as Tauai in the ancient Kaua'i dialect, is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle",...
) - Tetraplasandra waimeae WawraHeinrich Wawra von FernseeHeinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer....
– Ohe kikoolā (Kauai)
Formerly placed here
- Munroidendron racemosumMunroidendron racemosumMunroidendron racemosum , the sole species in the genus Munroidendron, is an extremely rare flowering plant in the ivy family, Araliaceae, that is endemic to the island of Kauai in Hawaii.-Description:...
(C.N.ForbesCharles Noyes Forbes-Biography:Forbes was born in Boylston, Massachusetts on 24 September 1883. When he was at the University of California he worked as a cadet for the emergency service during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. From 1908 to 1920 he was curator of Botany at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu...
) Sherff (as T. racemosa C.N.Forbes)