''Cyanea marksii'', or Marks' cyanea, is a tree in the bellflower family. It is
critically endangered
An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of t ...
. Some think that it is extinct.
Distribution
It is native to North America and was found on Hawaii.
Taxonomy
It was named by
Joseph Rock
Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American botanist, List of explorers, explorer, geographer, linguistics, linguist, ethnographer and photographer.
Life
Josef Franz Karl Rock was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a s ...
in ''Occas. Pap.'' Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 22: 52 in 1957.
References
marksii
Endemic flora of Hawaii
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