Type Information
Schiedea hookeri A. Gray , U. S. Expl. Exped., Phan. 133 1854.
[O`ahu, s.l.. March-March 1792or 1793. Menzies s.n..
Holotype
[GH]. Isotype(s)
[K! [photos BISH, MO, NY, PH]].
Note: Table 8 in Wagner et al., 1990, was used for date and locality reconstruction. The K sheet of the Menzies collection, long assumed to represent the holotype, cannot be because Asa Gray never saw it, nor did he mention it in the protologue. This is clear from correspondence from W. J. Hooker to Gray about this collection (enclosed along with the fragment from the K specimen) mounted on a herbarium sheet at GH. In Hooker's letter he describes the Menzies collection in some detail (although concluding that it represented S. ligustrina). Much of Gray's description comes from study of the fragment, which consist of part of an inflorescence and two crumpled leaves, but he also used the details in Hooker's letter
*Verification: W.L. Wagner, S.G. Weller.
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Schiedea hookeri A. Gray var. acrisepala Sherff, Amer. J. Bot. 31: 153 1944.
O`ahu, Wai`anae Mts., Lualualei Valley, head of valley below Pu`u Kanehoa, on grassy slopes. 600 to 700 m. 25 May 1932. Christophersen 3658.
Holotype
[UC]. Isotype(s)
[BISH! [2], P!, US!].
*Verification: R.K. Shannon, S.G. Weller.
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Schiedea hookeri A. Gray var. intercedens Sherff, Brittonia 5: 330 1945.
O`ahu, [Wai`anae Mountains] N slope of Mt. Ka`ala. 1871. Hillebrand s.n..
Holotype
[GH].
*Verification: R.K. Shannon, S.G. Weller.
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