Phyllostegia
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Phyllostegia is a genus of flowering plant
in the mint
family, Lamiaceae
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Species include:
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...
in the mint
Mentha
Mentha is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae . The species are not clearly distinct and estimates of the number of species varies from 13 to 18. Hybridization between some of the species occurs naturally...
family, Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae
The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...
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Species include:
- Phyllostegia glabraPhyllostegia glabraPhyllostegia glabra is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name ulihi phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii....
- Phyllostegia hirsutaPhyllostegia hirsutaPhyllostegia hirsuta is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name hairy phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Oahu. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.This plant is a subshrub or vine with hairy,...
Benth. - Phyllostegia hispidaPhyllostegia hispidaPhyllostegia hispida is an endangered species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is found only in wet forests at elevations of on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. This green vine's loosely spreading branches often form a large mass....
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:...
(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...
) - Phyllostegia kaalaensisPhyllostegia kaalaensisPhyllostegia kaalaensis is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, that is endemic to the island of Oahu in Hawaii. It can be found in mesic forests on the slopes of the Waianae Range at elevations of ....
H.St.JohnHarold St. JohnHarold St. John was a professor of botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa from 1929 to 1958. A prolific specialist in field botany and systematics, he is credited with discovering about 500 new species of Pandanus, along with many other species, especially in the Pacific Islands.Born in...
(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...
) - Phyllostegia knudseniiPhyllostegia knudseniiPhyllostegia knudsenii is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Waimea phyllostegia and Knudsen's phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Kauai...
Hillebr. - Phyllostegia manniiPhyllostegia manniiPhyllostegia mannii is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Mann's phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it has been known from Maui and Molokai. It has not been observed on Maui since the early 20th century, or on Molokai since 1993, but it probably...
Sherff - Phyllostegia mollisPhyllostegia mollisPhyllostegia mollis is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It can be found in mesic and wet forests at elevations of on the islands of Maui and Oahu. Some authors consider it to be an Oahu endemic, with the Maui populations belonging to a...
Benth.George BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
(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,...
, Oahu) - Phyllostegia parvifloraPhyllostegia parvifloraPhyllostegia parviflora is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name smallflower phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known from Maui, Oahu, and the island of Hawaii. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.There are three...
Benth. - Phyllostegia racemosaPhyllostegia racemosaPhyllostegia racemosa is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names kiponapona and racemed phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the slopes of the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. It is a federally listed endangered species of the...
Benth. - Phyllostegia renovansPhyllostegia renovansPhyllostegia renovans is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name red-leaf phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Kauai. It was federally listed as an endangered species of the United States in 2010.This species was...
- Phyllostegia velutinaPhyllostegia velutinaPhyllostegia velutina is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name velvet phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is limited to the island of Hawaii, including the slopes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea...
(Sherff) H.St.John - Phyllostegia waimeaePhyllostegia waimeaePhyllostegia waimeae is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Kauai phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is limited to the island of Kauai. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.This plant was not seen since 1969 and was...
Wawra - Phyllostegia warshaueriPhyllostegia warshaueriPhyllostegia warshaueri is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Laupahoehoe phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is limited to the island of Hawaii. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.This plant grows only on Mauna...
H.St.John - Phyllostegia wawranaPhyllostegia wawranaPhyllostegia wawrana is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name fuzzystem phyllostegia. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is limited to the island of Kauai. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.When this plant was listed as an...
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