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Liliwai

Acaena exigua

Liliwai
Photo: Forbes, C. N., CC0
Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Hawaiian Is. (Kaua‘i, W. Maui)
Climate
montane tropical

About

Acaena exigua is an extinct species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name liliwai. It was endemic to Hawaii, where it was known from Kauaʻi and west Maui. It had not been seen or collected since 1957 and was feared extinct until 1997, when one plant was discovered in a remote montane bog on Maui. The plant died in 2000, and the species is now considered extinct.

Other Acaena plants

Acaena alpina · Bronze Pirri Pirri Bur · Antarctic Prickly Burr · Glaucous Pirri Pirri Bur · Acaena dumicola · Sheepbur · Acaena emittens · Spineless Acaena · Acaena juvenca · Acaena lucida · Greater Burnet · New Zealand Bur

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acaena exigua by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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