''Labordia'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in family
Loganiaceae
The Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes up to 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics. There are not any great morphological characteristics to distinguish these taxa from ot ...
. There are 16 species all
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
.
[Motley, T. J. and G. D. Carr. (1998)]
Artificial hybridization in the Hawaiian endemic genus ''Labordia''.
Am J Bot 85:5 654-60. It is closely related to ''
Geniostoma
''Geniostoma'' is a genus of around 25 species of flowering plants in the family Loganiaceae. They are shrubs or small trees, with inflorescences borne in the axils of the simple, petiolate, oppositely-arranged leaves. The flowers are arranged i ...
''
Species include:
* ''
Labordia cyrtandrae'' (Baill.) H.St.John
* ''
Labordia degeneri'' Sherff
* ''
Labordia fagraeoidea'' Gaudich.
* ''
Labordia hedyosmifolia'' Baill.
* ''
Labordia helleri'' Sherff
* ''
Labordia hirtella'' H.Mann
* ''
Labordia hosakana'' (Sherff) W.L.Wagner, D.R.Herbst & Sohmer
* ''
Labordia kaalae'' C.N.Forbes
* ''
Labordia lorenciana'' K.R.Wood, W.L.Wagner & T.Motley
* ''
Labordia lydgatei'' C.N.Forbes
* ''
Labordia pumila'' (Hillebr.) Skottsb.
* ''
Labordia sessilis'' A.Gray
* ''
Labordia tinifolia'' A.Gray var. ''tinifolia''
* ''Labordia tinifolia'' A.Gray var. ''lanaiensis'' Sherff
* ''Labordia tinifolia'' A.Gray var. ''wahiawaensis'' H.St.John
* ''
Labordia triflora'' Hillebr.
* ''
Labordia venosa'' Sherff
* ''
Labordia waialealae'' Wawra
* ''
Labordia waiolani'' Wawra
References
Endemic flora of Hawaii
Gentianales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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