Rare plant thought to be extinct discovered on Kamehameha Schools land on Hawaiʻi IslandA small population of Delissea argutidentata, a plant thought to be extinct in the wild, was discovered in a crater on Kamehameha Schools land in a remote section of ma uka Kona on Hawai‘i Island.The three organizations successfully planted 30 keiki plants propagated by the Volcano Rare Plant Facility from seeds retrieved from the small population of this newly-found plant that was detected in early March 2021 by a TMA staff member.“Kamehameha Schools has been successful at stewarding native ecosystems as a whole but what’s really exciting is that this is the first step toward a much bigger focus on rare species recovery,” KS Senior Natural Resources Manager Amber Nāmaka Whitehead said.“The fact that it was discovered here, brings it back to this place,” Joshua VanDeMark, DLNR coordinator of the Plant Extinction Prevention Program, said.While no Hawaiian name has been recorded for Delissea argutidentata, they are very similar to plants in the related genus Cyanea, and could have been known by the same name, Hāhā; or given its extremely tall, unbranched form, one could descriptively call this plant hāhā kiʻekiʻe (tall hāhā)."