Rare Plant Species
Rare Plant Species
Forestry & Wildlife is in the process of developing species profile pages for some of the most important rare plants, as well as some of the more common native plants that people are more likely to encounter in the forest. In the meantime, the fact sheets below from the Hawaiʻi State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) provide some information on species described on our SWAP pages as genetic safety net species.
- Abutilon eremitopetalum
- Achyranthes mutica
- Alectryon macrococcus var. auwahiensis
- Amaranthus brownii
- Astelia waialealae
- Bidens hillebrandiana subsp. hillebrandiana
- Brighamia insignis
- Caesalpinia kavaiensis
- Chamaesyce eleanoriae
- Clermontia oblongifolia ssp. brevipes
- Clermontia oblongifolia subsp. mauiensis
- Clermontia peleana ssp. peleana
- Clermontia pyrularia
- Cyanea asarifolia
- Cyanea crispa
- Cyanea dunbariae
- Cyanea eleeleensis
- Cyanea gibsonii
- Cyanea glabra
- Cyanea grimesiana subsp. grimesiana
- Cyanea grimesiana subsp. obatae
- Cyanea hamatiflora subsp. carlsonii
- Cyanea kolekoleensis
- Cyanea kuhihewa
- Cyanea lobata
- Cyanea magnicalyx
- Cyanea maritae
- Cyanea munroi
- Cyanea obtusa
- Cyanea pinnatifida
- Cyanea platyphylla
- Cyanea procera
- Cyanea profuga
- Cyanea purpurellifolia
- Cyanea shipmanii
- Cyanea solanacea
- Cyanea stictophylla
- Cyanea st-johnii
- Cyanea superba subsp. superba
- Cyanea truncata
- Cyanea undulata
- Cyperus trachysanthos
- Cyrtandra gracilis
- Cyrtandra halawensis
- Cyrtandra hematos
- Cyrtandra kaulantha
- Cyrtandra paliku
- Cyrtandra polyantha
- Cyrtandra sessilis
- Cyrtandra viridiflora
- Cyrtandra waiolani
- Delissea niihauensis subsp. kauaiensis
- Delissea rhytidosperma
- Delissea rivularis
- Delissea subcordata
- Delissea undulata subsp. undulata
- Diellia erecta f. alexandri
- Diellia mannii
- Diellia pallida
- Diplazium molokaiense
- Doryopteris angelica
- Dryopteris podosorus var. podosorus
- Dubautia kenwoodii
- Dubautia pauciflorula
- Gahnia lanaiensis
- Gardenia brighamii
- Gouania vitifolia
- Hedyotis cookiana
- Hedyotis coriacea
- Hedyotis haupuensis
- Hedyotis mannii
- Hedyotis schlechtendahliana var. remyi
- Hedyotis st.-johnii
- Hesperomannia arbuscula
- Hibiscadelphus distans
- Hibiscadelphus giffardianus
- Hibiscadelphus hualalaiensis
- Hibiscadelphus woodii
- Hibiscus brackenridgei subsp. mokuleianus
- Hibiscus brackenridgei subsp. molokaiana
- Hibiscus clayi
- Huperzia mannii
- Huperzia nutans
- Huperzia stemmermanniae
- Isodendrion pyrifolium
- Kanaloa kahoolawensis
- Kokia cookei
- Kokia drynarioides
- Labordia cyrtandrae
- Labordia lydgatei
- Labordia sp. nov
- Labordia tinifolia var. wahiawaensis
- Labordia triflora
- Lobelia monostachya
- Lysimachia filifolia
- Lysimachia iniki
- Lysimachia lydgatei
- Lysimachia maxima
- Lysimachia pendens
- Lysimachia scopulensis
- Melicope adscendens
- Melicope balloui
- Melicope cruciata
- Melicope degeneri
- Melicope haupuensis
- Melicope hiiakae
- Melicope knudsenii
- Melicope lydgatei
- Melicope mucronulata
- Melicope quadrangularis
- Melicope zahlbruckneri
- Myrsine mezii
- Neraudia ovata
- Nothocestrum peltatum
- Panicum niihauense
- Peperomia subpetiolata
- Phyllostegia brevidens
- Phyllostegia hirsuta
- Phyllostegia hispida
- Phyllostegia kaalaensis
- Phyllostegia knudsenii
- Phyllostegia mannii
- Phyllostegia mollis
- Phyllostegia parviflora var. glabriuscula
- Phyllostegia parviflora var. lydgatei
- Phyllostegia racemosa
- Phyllostegia renovans
- Phyllostegia waimeae
- Phyllostegia warshaueri
- Phyllostegia wawrana
- Pittosporum halophilum
- Platanthera holochila
- Pritchardia affinis
- Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii
- Pritchardia glabrata
- Prtichardia munroi
- Pritchardia schattaueri
- Pritchardia viscosa
- Psychotria grandiflora
- Psychotria hexandra subsp. oahuensis
- Remya mauiensis
- Remya montgomeryi
- Schiedea adamantis
- Schiedea attenuata
- Schiedea hawaiiensis
- Schiedea helleri
- Schiedea jacobii
- Schiedea kaalae
- Schiedea kauaiensis
- Schiedea nuttallii
- Schiedea obovata
- Schiedea spergulina var. leiopoda
- Schiedea viscosa
- Sesbania tomentosa
- Sicyos alba
- Sicyos lanceoloideus
- Silene alexandri
- Silene hawaiiensis
- Silene lanceolata
- Solanum incompletum
- Solanum sandwicense
- Stenogyne bifida
- Stenogyne campanulata
- Stenogyne kanehoana
- Tetramolopium lepidotum subsp. lepidotum
- Tetramolopium remyi
- Tetraplasandra bisattenuata
- Tetraplasandra flynii
- Trematolobelia singularis
- Urera kaalae
- Vicia menziesii
- Viola helenae
- Viola kauaiensis var. wahiawaensis
- Viola lanaiensis
- Wikstroemia skottsbergiana
- Xylosma crenatum
- Zanthoxylum dipetalum var. tomentosum